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Thursday, September 30, 2004
Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:39:43 AM) Yeah sorry. Just getting excited about earthcore! I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:39:49 AM) LMAO I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:39:56 AM) raver.... No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:39:59 AM) Looking at the site No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:40:07 AM) Pfft. Earthcore is not a rave No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:40:12 AM) It's a ferstival I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:40:13 AM) LOL I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:40:16 AM) heheheheh No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:40:40 AM) Nah serious dude. Raves are trashy parties No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:40:52 AM) In warehouses and sporting venues No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:41:10 AM) Earthcore is a 3 dqay festival in the bush. Ravers are replaced with trippers No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:41:16 AM) Hohoh I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:41:34 AM) lol I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:41:37 AM) okay No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:41:41 AM) Yes No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:42:14 AM) So are you at work? I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:42:22 AM) sure am No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:42:28 AM) Working hard? No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:42:37 AM) I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:42:37 AM) lol kinda I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:42:47 AM) just renaiming photos I had to take last night I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:42:50 AM) pretty boring No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:42:58 AM) Joyous No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:43:15 AM) Hey have you been hanging out with Allie and those guys or what? I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:43:27 AM) nah, haven't seen allie in ages No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:43:40 AM) That's a shame I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:43:46 AM) she's in sydney at the moment on holidays I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:44:03 AM) nah not really, I think she go tover being friends with me anyway No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:44:03 AM) Oh I see. Still talk to her on the phone? No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:44:10 AM) Pfft. I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:44:11 AM) not much, sometimes online No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:44:13 AM) Yeah right. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:44:51 AM) So who are your sidekicks these days I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:09 AM) doug and adam and then maddy and shell I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:16 AM) daniel still No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:45:17 AM) ??????? No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:45:27 AM) Sweet. That dude is funny as./ I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:32 AM) oh, I'm in a band with shell I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:38 AM) doug went to tafe with me I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:46 AM) and works with him so we are friends I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:45:57 AM) I used to work with maddy that'show I know shell No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:46:06 AM) Does Dan still see Allie? Or is she outside the circle these days? I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:46:26 AM) nah, I think I'm the one out of that circle now, lol I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:46:31 AM) they are all still firneds I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:46:35 AM) friends* No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:46:44 AM) Ooooh? Pfft. Get into it you know you want to! I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:46:59 AM) nah, they're uni kids and I'm a work kid I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:47:01 AM) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:47:04 AM) Hahaah No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:47:09 AM) Uni kids rok I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:47:12 AM) it's too hard cause we have different free time No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:47:12 AM) Yeh I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:47:34 AM) like, I only get weekends off and they work on weekends so it's pretty hard I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:47:42 AM) and they hang out in melb all the itme I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:47:48 AM) and I'm not cool enough anymore No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:47:55 AM) Hahahaha I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:48:10 AM) yeah, the truth is out I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:48:12 AM) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:48:20 AM) Ahh well. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:48:25 AM) Let's all cry for a while. I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:48:31 AM) lol I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:48:33 AM) emoo No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:48:59 AM) Meuh! I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:49:13 AM) ahh so you still hate emo I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:49:17 AM) what about metalcore? No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:49:39 AM) How about Emotelapplecore with a lemon twist? I love that kind of music I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:49:50 AM) lol I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:50:31 AM) acoustic melodic hardcore with screamo and metal undertones No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:50:56 AM) I like good music. Thjere is no such thing as classification of music. Just good and bad music. Seems that the stuff people call EMO is boring tasteless music. Crying little middle class fuckheads who can't think of anything but their introverted meaningless feelings. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:51:22 AM) I'm so hard done by because that girl like a pinecone and not me. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:51:33 AM) Let's make a song about it! No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:51:34 AM) YAY! I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:51:46 AM) lol... yeah thats what a lot of people into "punk" say No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:51:57 AM) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:52:00 AM) Hmm, I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:52:15 AM) listen to some rites of spring, jawbreaker and maybe... hmmmm No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:52:22 AM) No thanks. I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:52:22 AM) fugazi even I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:52:31 AM) was made up from poeple from emo bands No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:52:49 AM) I think I'll stick to my Drum'n'bass and general other stuff. No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:53:04 AM) I'm not neo-emotional enough for emo I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:53:10 AM) ok whatever No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:53:15 AM) HAr har har I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:53:21 AM) you like rancid so meh I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:53:32 AM) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:53:33 AM) Rancid are good so meuh! No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:53:53 AM) Even if tim advertises shampoo I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:53:57 AM) rancid are on a major label and are best friends with good charlotte I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:54:04 AM) PUNK ROCK I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:54:06 AM) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:54:17 AM) Yeah but their music excuses such terrible behaviour I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:54:27 AM) lol No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:54:32 AM) They're just lucky they've got roots. I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:54:59 AM) I'm more about cred... I think they would be better off throwing rancid in and reforming op ivy I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:55:03 AM) now that was good music No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:55:12 AM) Hehehehe Hell yeah. I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:55:23 AM) it would be so gooooood No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:55:42 AM) Fuck I've been getting into the clash heaps lately. ANd Ramones. Just warrnambool antics of pissed dancing in the loungeroom with fletch and jake I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:55:56 AM) lol poor old ramones I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:56:01 AM) almost all dead No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:56:08 AM) So crusty. Ss dying No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:56:21 AM) FUCK I WANT A CIGGIE I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:56:26 AM) lol No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:56:37 AM) I'm out. Gotta work in an hour I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:56:40 AM) okay I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:56:46 AM) nice catching up No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:57:16 AM) Good chatting to ya foz-crag. Rockin friends from back in the day (Which isn't quite so 'bock in the' yet but it still sounds cool) No'one's safe around here... stand your ground, 'till you're the last one in town. says: (11:57:26 AM) Catcha I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:57:28 AM) lol I can't get laid in this town, without these pointy fucking shoes, my feet are so black and blue & so are you says: (11:57:29 AM) bai bai The following message could not be delivered: lol The following message could not be delivered: bai bai Saturday, July 31, 2004
Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Dashboard Confessional Live Guess who recorded this??!?!? me! hahah, doing my bit for the dc community! Monday, July 26, 2004
Wooooo, I'll tell you about my weekend. Well... I had a fight with my parents friday night....mehhhh. Kirby got another dance game, this one is better, it's more like DDR (Or PPR if you're Adam). Its fun as. I dance every day now. I went into town on saturday with maddy in her mums car (her mum is away till next saturday so we had better get a practice or two in). We went shopping for a bit, then decided we would crash doug and adams place to give Adam his birthday prezzie (finally!). We both got a boost juice (so jummy) and we went to cotton on. There is quite a bit of my stuff in there now, the main thing would be the von dutch ripoff truckers. If anyone remembers my font from last year they will be able to find the polo I did. I got some grey grandpa pants, then we went to buy sushi and head to Doug and Adams house. We got there and rocked on Adams' bed, Maddy found some stains on his sheets!!! (I find it suspicious that she was even looking for them. I'm sure they're just ordinary stains....maybe that can be the topic of this 100th blog post?) Doug kept trying to poke me with his light saber. It was gross. He also whacked a magazine against my head when I had a milk crate on it. It really hurt. Then he threw the magazine at me. I can imagine him being a really annoying brother (I hope you read this, Doug!) After awhile everyone was going to work so Maddy and I went back to my house and watched "down with love" with Kirby. Kirby got it for my birthday and I only just watched it on the weekend! It's a good movie though. Oh, I forgot to say, when Maddy came to pick me up of saturday, her car was really dirty, and I couldnt understand why. Anyway, on the way home that night she went down this back road to these huge potholes and drove through them a few times. It was pretty fun, but it was also a bit scary, and I bet the car's wheels are out of alignment now.We went to get something to eat at apco and pissed ourselves when we looked at the car because there were HUGE CHUNKS of mud all over it and it looked like it had been through a rally! On sunday I pretty much sat around doing nothing and reading until kirby got home from work, then Maddy came over again, and we all went to adams house again, to dance the night away. I had sushi for tea again. Adam has some yummy chicken balls out and we all ate them (you have to get those again, adam). Then we sang. Most people think I am a crappy singer, but guess what!? I rocked! I kept getting really high scores! I bet I could sing anyone under the table! (at least on easy mode). Oh, Kirby and I also bet the 300bpm song on easy! We rock! I found out something that makes watching people dance ever funnier...look at their arses! Its so so so funny. Something else that is funny is Adam wearing two pairs of pants. Also! oh.... I forgot. No! I remember! If you see Adam online or in RL tell him he should get dreadlocks! his hair is at just the right colour and length. It would look cool,, and he would just be able to get free ones and then cut them out (which is the non posuer way of doing it, not spending 300 bucks) We played till about 10:15 when my dad called and said we should probably think about heading home (I had to get up for work the next day) So we headed off home. When I got home I read and then went to bed. I forgot my lunchtoday so I'm going to be VERY HUNGRY when I get home. oh yeah, three days to Dashboard!!!!! Wooooo, they are on rove tomorrow, so excited. I wonder if Chris or Rove is taller? Friday, July 23, 2004
Stringa's Stuff Adam never updates his blog anymore and thats really bad.Slack! Here are some pictures for you... 
woooooo. If you didn't know I want to make either a zine or an ezine depending. So if you want to be interviewed, or want to contribute, sayso in the comments. It's just gonna be about everything and anything, but the main things would probably be music design and street art and maybe political stuff too. But if you want to write about/ draw something else that is fine too. If it's a ezine it will be free and in colour, but if it's a real zine it will cost money and probably be b&w. I will set up a site to sell it on it it costs money. it wont cost much though. I need a name for it tooo. You can also talk about this at the wasabiklan forum if you would like. I want some hot chocolate.:( Anyway, I realised what dan said is kinda write, I should actually write more about what is happening in my life. I just think my life is totally *boring* thats all. But here goes nothing.... Okay, Today my sister told me when I first woke up that she didn't want to go to dashboard anymore. It's next thusday. This means I might not be able to go anymore so I'm pretty pissed off. I didnt sit with her on the train and I cried all the way to work. I listened to brand new and piebald and rocket summer on my md. I think I freaked out people on the train because I was crying so much. I havent decided when I will start talking to my sister again. She said its because she has to go to uni and then yelled at me that uni is not the same as tafe, where its the same thing every day and it doesnt mean anything. That offended me the most, like she thinks shes better cause she's going to uni. She's not. I'm sick of people think I'm dumb because I went to tafe. Last night Nat rang me for like two minutes. She got a scholarship, which is kinda cool. I'm meant to have band practice tomorrow morning... we havent practiced in ages I have been writing some new stuff....sometimes I just feel like the band is going nowhere though cause we dont practice enough. But its still cool being in a band. Maddy's mums has gone away so the house is free. She's scared of the ghost though. She came over the other night cause she didn't want to be alone with it. She watched me and kirby dance and then we did subtitle karaoke which is really fun. You write a song with the words of subtitles on whatever sbs show is on at the time. Maddy was pissing herself at me and kirby. I got gold class tickets from work but I dont know what I want to see... maybe the new michael moore doco... There arent many good movies out at the moment. I think I might go to the super session at timezone on sunday and do some crazy dancin' !! I think I am getting better. I'm not going to let kirby play my game anymore cause she was mean to me. I'm mena tot be going to a party on saturday night, but no one want sot go with me (what a surprise) so I might leave it and stay home and be depressed. *le sigh* oh yeah.... dan said I should post thing I am working on at work, so here is one thing... 
It is a swing tag!!!!! Woah! totally amazing and brilliant. If you liked this new format of longer blogging, please comment and tll me so. Otherwise I will cry and not bother. Thursday, July 22, 2004
eBay item 8119022410 (Ends 27-Jul-04 19:31:54 AEST) - MONKEY ISLAND 2 MACINTOSH PC GAME COMPLETE want. Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming gotta go to this....gotta go...*dying* gotta gotta gotta go! Wednesday, July 21, 2004
spinterview Ugh, they're coming to Australia. This tiem, I am really buying a gun. Hopefully pual cooper will go to their concert, too, so it will be two birds with one stone. Ahhhh, that reminds me, Granite are playing at the barwon club soon, he have to go and throw rotting garbage at them. I hate that dude so much. Friday, July 16, 2004
There have been a few changes to the lineup this week. Notice that I'm listening to armageddon skyw who I'm hopefully seeinglive tonight finally. Thursday, July 15, 2004
MTV.com - News -Dashboard Singer Gives Props To Higher Power For Spidey Song hehehehehe, He's such a nerd. Tuesday, July 13, 2004
I hate my first kernel panic (the osx equivalent of a system crash) today. it freakedthe shit out of me cuase I didn'tknow what it was. Like the first time as a kid you see the bomb. except it's not a bomb. It looks like this. 
I think it's something to do with my copy of aquisition, so I'm goona try starting it up again to see. oh yeah, here is my panic log (I have no idea what it all means) Tue Jul 13 17:41:07 2004 Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x000000003F000000 PC=0x0000000000038EC8 Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state (sv=0x14720500) PC=0x00038EC8; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3F000000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00038EB0; R1=0x076A38D0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x00093770 0x00024188 0x0020B840 0x000FAE68 0x000FAA04 0x000FA08C 0x000F9FA0 0x00109FF0 0x0010A0F8 0x0011F100 0x00229884 0x0022E2F8 0x0022E45C 0x0023DAA4 0x00093C00 0x6B0F9168 Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x14720500) previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping... Exception state (sv=0x1473BC80) PC=0x9001090C; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x6B33C000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x843A55B0; R1=0xF100FD20; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC panic(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0: Backtrace: 0x000833B8 0x0008389C 0x0001ED8C 0x00090800 0x00093A6C Proceeding back via exception chain: Exception state (sv=0x14720500) PC=0x00038EC8; MSR=0x00009030; DAR=0x3F000000; DSISR=0x40000000; LR=0x00038EB0; R1=0x076A38D0; XCP=0x0000000C (0x300 - Data access) Backtrace: 0x00093770 0x00024188 0x0020B840 0x000FAE68 0x000FAA04 0x000FA08C 0x000F9FA0 0x00109FF0 0x0010A0F8 0x0011F100 0x00229884 0x0022E2F8 0x0022E45C 0x0023DAA4 0x00093C00 0x6B0F9168 Exception state (sv=0x1473BC80) PC=0x9001090C; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x6B33C000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x843A55B0; R1=0xF100FD20; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00 - System call) Kernel version: Darwin Kernel Version 7.0.0: Wed Sep 24 15:48:39 PDT 2003; root:xnu/xnu-517.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC ********* The Apple Store (Australia) Well, If I spent like, no money at all for a whole year I might be able to afford this. MAybe. I guess I dont need the i pod. Or the dual 30" cinema displays. Or 8gig of ram. Or the dual 250gig hard drives. I am being a bit greedy. If I was rich tho, this would be my computer. Absolute Punk Forums - Not What I Would've Expected Fuck Blink 182, for taking good bands on tour with them. Fuck them. I dont want teeny boppers to listen to the music I do. It sucks. Stupid teenies. Part of music is finding your own taste, not having it thrown at you. To me blink 182 are no different to some giant record company, they are old, they are rich, and they tell the kids what to wear and what to listen to. Fuck them. Monday, July 12, 2004
are you emo? sad sad sad sad sad. This is almost as bad as a how to look like avril article. Emo's so not about fashion. Oer maybe it is, I dunno, I'm still more punk than emo. But it just seems to lame to me. BOOFY IS DEAD. Yes, it's true, she died last night of depression, Shell is really sad now. Boofy was a good friend, she was a goth weirdo with fangs who liked giving skateboards and flowers as presents. She freakin rocked. Now she's gone, and Percy has replaced her. I am going to makea video montage of all my memories of boofy and the goodtimes we had. RIP BOOFY 6/7/2004 - 11/7/2004 In other news, Alex gave harry a ball to play with. I think harry named the ball wilson. Sometimes he yells at the ball. Friday, July 09, 2004
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage "Australian scientists have identified the chemical in smoke that makes plant seeds germinate after bushfires, a discovery that could reap huge benefits for the agricultural sector." Wow.I remember being told when I was young that for pinetrees to grow the pinecone has to be burnt and then the seeds come out and I was amazed. It was like "fire is a *good* thing?". This sounds pretty cool, as longs as it doesnt have some crazy side effect. O.o <---- uses evil asian smiley (go read something awfulto know what I'm on about there) I forgot to say earlier, I got a tamagothci. It's name is Harry. I will document it's life here from now on. Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Bootlegger who amassed £15m fortune from pirate CDs jailed "The 11-year career of the world's biggest bootlegger came to an end yesterday when he was jailed for three and a half years for ripping off some of the pop industry's biggest stars to the tune of at least £15m. Mark Purseglove, 33, drove a £104,000 Aston Martin, sported a Rolex Oyster watch and owned several homes in the most exclusive parts of London, all of which were funded by his international business in counterfeit CDs." Crazy stuff. I wonder if it's even possibel to make this muc h off bootlegs anymore, seeing everyone can make them so easily now. 
Well, I'll try to put one up each week now, just to see what I listen to most when I'm at work. I found out last night that Andrew lieks th epostal service and death cab! Giiiiiiii! so exciting. I saw a whole bunch of old friends last night. It was great. I had so much fun. Mel wants me to get he beach house for a weekend so we can all go up and hang out there. She said I can come up to warnambool with her one weekend. Fletcher and Kal are sill eating lots of magic mushrooms. The other day kal collected up heaps and heaps of them, and they were eating them, then they found all these bugs in them! So they hd eaten a whole heap of bugs! I keep Hearing Dashboard on the radio all the time now. Its really weird. Thursday, July 08, 2004
Wooster Collective : Stickers / Posters / Graf / Culture Jamming Woah. All I can say is, this gusy is a mental! Imagine hating graffiti this much! deviantART: muskawo Hey, I am putting up a little more art...sometimes. SO go check it out. One day I'll have to chuck loads of old stuff up, cause it's looking so bare. My boss just gave me some green tea! I was talking abotu ti and she said "I get so much green tea from overseas as presents, have some" So cool. I bet it will be so much nicer and full of vitamins! Wednesday, July 07, 2004
Beware of offensive blog post! Sweeping generalisations ahead!!!!!!!! (How to tell smart people from stupid people) I'm really getting sick of certian pretentious gits being fuckheads and acting like they know everything. Get over it. So a few people like your work. WOW. I'm so impressed. I just can't stand people boasting and acting like they know everything about everything and they are smarter than they actually are. It's quite easy to tell the difference between someone who is actually smart, and someone who thinks they are. Try asking the person who thinks they are smart what their favourite books,movies , past-times are, and you'll soon realise. 1. Smart people are almost ALWAYS prolific readers. They aren't too cool to read or some bullshit like that. Saying you don't like reading is basically the same as saying I need nothing that a book could give me, a book could in no way enrich my life or my mind. 2. Smart people Don't walk around saying "smart" things. See that guy blabbing on about the arrt piece up on the wall in the gallery? See how he's making mistakes left right and center and basically bullshiting to look like he knows something? Then see the kid sitting back on a chair, not saying anything and writing something in his notepad. Which one do you think is smarter? 3. Smart people don't like teenmovies (as in, american pie). I know this. Every person I know who has liked teen movies is either a dumb jock or his equally dumb (potential) girlfriend. 4. Smart people are not loudmouths. See, I'm willing to admit I'm not smart when it comes to that :P (this isn't, how to tell cara from everyone else in the world who is not as good as her) 5. Smart people are generally more open minded. And less zenophobic. The dumb jock telling racist jokes at the bar was probably not an a grade student. I'll finish up for now, cuase I just found out jk updated her website. But stay tuned for the next time I'm in a bad mood. Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Profiles - Stencil Revolution This guy's stuff is EVERYWHERE. But I don't have to tell you that. We need to set a date to all go out and work together to vandalise geelong the best we can...oh, I mean, put our beautiful art up! :P Friday, July 02, 2004
The Typical Arts student. 
Okay, so I come to check if there are any comments on my blog and I see this ad. What's funniest is the related searches. Dashboard confessional.com is such a weird site! Thursday, July 01, 2004
NEWS.com.au | RSPCA welcomes army action (July 1, 2004) Thsi makes me wanna cry. Why would anyone do this? It just shows the type of people who join the army : total morons. Tehy deserve to have done to them what they did to the kittens. Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Manly Blades - Online Store: "2/49 North Steyne, Manly 2095, Australia Tel : 02 99763833 Fax : 02 9976 3780 " Dude, anyone could do a better job of webdesign than this! sakteboards ?!?!?! WTF. Come on, people. This is a joke. I hope someone wasn't paid to do this! Something Awful "I changed the subject and told him I could conceivably write the article about him. He seemed to like this idea and told me a long and excessively convoluted story about a ten year old addict who came in trying to pick up his mother's methadone allotment. Jake explained that even though the kid brought his mother's photo ID ("the kind you get at one of those camera stores") they couldn't give it to anyone but the woman. So like an hour later the kid comes in with his mother, only she's in a beat up wheelchair and she's not talking. It turns out the kid wheeled his (or someone's) dead mother into the methadone clinic trying to get her drugs. Jake grabbed him when he tried to run and said the kid bit him and screamed "AIDS!". Luckily he didn't bite through Jake's shirt and the cops hauled the kid off." This is the first time I've even seen an article on something awful that was more sad than funny. I find it amazing that there would be enough addicts to line up for ages. The gayfuel thing underneath is funny though. Hey, it's like a day under a month tilll dashboard. Adam (dashboard adam, the drummer) is going to the concert in sydney as well & looking for splendor tixs or ebay. I reckon I'll just enter every splendor comp that's on at the moment. There is a really good one on channel v where they pay for your plane tix aswell. Maddy came over last night (band prac got moved to wednesday) and I showed her homestar runner. I forgot how many of those things there are! She was pissing herself at homsar. Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Yahoo! Movies: Movie News - LMAO! I dunno about you guys, but I reckon this movie sounds really interesting! Monday, June 28, 2004
Punk Hardcore Australia - PunkNetwork "- Sparta have announced their sideshows from their Blink 182 tour. They will be playing on Saturday September 11, The Metro, Sydney & Sunday September 12, HiFi Bar, Melbourne . Tickets go on sale on Friday 2nd of July" I already know at least 4 people who will go see this with me, anyone else up for it? Wasabi Image Design :: View Forum - General Stuff Um, I'm linking to the forum cause everyone should go there all the time.(actually, I just happened to be there when I clicked "blog this", but let's pretend I am doing my bit for the klan.) I'm listening to so long, so long, which is a fantastic dc song that is up on thier website for free, so you should go get it, no excuses.Also, the rocket summer is total radness. TOTAL radness. Lotsa piano and good singing. But anyway. I wentout friday night for my first ever work night out drinking lots and being stupid. It was at the barking dog. There was a cute guy there. But things were strange. But I wont go into it all here, cuase I'm not of those emo kids who talks about their love lives online :P. Lets just say, I've never met someone in person that I'd only known for about an hour, that would then have a D and M about why he felt weird about kissing me because of one hundred different reasons. For half an hour. At a pub. He was very cute, very 24 years old, and had enough emotional baggage to need to pay fees if he was trying to get it out of the country. Or so it seemed. I mean, he asked me to come out to say goodbye, and if I wanted to wait for my parents in his car (!). What the hell? Thats enough of that subject. That night I got home and the rem covers dvd was sitting there! Yayness. I watched it saturday morning. It was so so so so so so good. No matter how much people hate dashboard, they are talented. Mikes high-pitched singing was great, actually, the backing in general was great, at times there were three people singing at once, it was so good. Finally watching hands down with micheal stipe singing, I think it was good. Different, but still good, the emotion was still there. I'm sorry about my dissing of Devart in my last post. It was meant to be a joke, but some people got a bit peeved. Sorry to those people, I didn't actually mean it. I was just screwing around and making a point of how irritated you can get at a site being down for a day or so. Hmmm maybe I should put some special sarcasm disclaimer before some of my posts. :P Still, it's another reason for me not to become a subsciber. I'd much rather put my cash into a purevolume account than a devart one. But maybe that's cause I'm more into music than art. I mean, everyone knows my dream job is not art related, it's just my within reason dream job, cause chances are I might not be a rockstar (but I still have lots of time) I finally watched underworld on sunday, Adam brought it over (thankyou!). It was pretty good, considering. I'm not into fantasy that much (says the rabid harry potter fan) But I liked the whole theme of the movie, even though it took awhile to get to the point. It was very much a guy's movie, lots of blood and violence and guns and hot chicks. But it had a storyline, and a cool one, and I wonder if they are going to do a sequel? Was it ever a book or comic or something before it was a movie? Oh, and apparently there is a finch vid on the dvd. Finch are good. (for a drive thru band, drive thru SUCKS) Friday, June 25, 2004
The Leaky Cauldron This is really really sad. Does anyone remember this kid from Oprah? He had such a crappy life but still wrote really beautiful stuff. This really really sucks. All those people praying for him. Sometimes I really wonder why bad things keep happening to good people. R.I.P. , Mattie. deviantART we are pooies and wontlet anyone use their accounts. Okay,I guess at around, hmmm, maybe 10 yesterday, the internet went down at work, and it came back up again today at 9. That's 23 frikken hours! (not to be confused with frikken lazers) The only othertimes I go that long without internet is sometimes on weekends, or it I go on holidays! That meant no email from overseas (which the company basically relies on to work) and no internet for me to get stuff off for work, and no internet for me to look at at lunch time! Not happy,juan. (I had to change jan to juan due to legal reasons. juan is the mexican dude who works at wasabi and didn't put us in the yellow pages. Just cause we don't have any services to provide! Damn you, Juan!) Yeah, um yeah... anyway, I get online to put up some shiznizzleizzle on dev art and they say it's read only. What you say, deviant art?! What you say indeed. I'm so not in love with deviant art anymore. I'm not even gonna put lovehearts around it's name on my pencil case. Nope, sorry dev art, you smell bad, and you make things read only, which is crappy, because even books these days aren'tread only because you can scribble on them or throw them at people. It's not good enough. No aaaaaa++++++++++++ great service fast shipping! for you, deviant art, you get big fat NEGATIVE FEEDBACK! Okay, to tell the truth, I'm not really angry, I just had new art to put up. :( Oh oh oh, no, you! Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Music industry sues more file swappers This is so lame. EVERYONE has illegal files on their computer, it's never going to stop. I still buy cds, I still by books,and most other things I can get online for free. The real problem is that cds aretoo expensive, and they don't offer much that mp3s cant. The whole trend of bonus dvds is great tho, that definately makes me more inclined to buy a cd. I just know if I like the band enough, I buy the cd. if I dont, the mp3 just sits there doing nothing. I don't give my mp3s to anyone else, and most of the time, I dont download full albums, either. I mainly use the internet to make lots of mix cds to find out about new bands. Punknews.org "Hospital records obtained by the Associated Press indicate that Mr. Carraba was admitted for an “Anal tear”. Mr. Carraba was released noon Monday. Mr. Pope, who is still under hospital supervision, was admitted for a “Dislocated Groin”. " This is soooo mean, but I laughed heaps at it, too. Too bad they spelt Carrabba wrong. Friday, June 18, 2004
deviantART: muskawo New stuff at my deviant art site. So anyway I went and got my dashboard ticket today. Saw a kid wearing a behind crimson eyes hoodie. I think I scared everyone else in the line. I bought the new name talen and the new gyroscope, and a new bag, black and red chex. They have vans in that style coming out, I think I'll get them, might import them so I have them before everyone else. I'm such a snob! I think Adam was super scared of my street press taking ways. But it was all okay in the end. They were distributed around the train. Oh! We also got cool new lighters to go with our cool new hangout - planet pool. They are balls that are lighters. I got an 8 ball (of course) and Adam got an 11. They are super cool. Thursday, June 17, 2004
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
The Leaky Cauldron I knew it. Knew it, knew it, knew it. Then again, Androgenous!Blaise was always fun to talk about. Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Awwwwwww. So cute. I'll have to do a review of this movie seeing I saw it TWICE over the weekend (My mum wasn't happy about this, the same way she doesn't get going to see the same band more than once!) But yeah. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I wanna redesing my blog soon, so if anyone has the code for having something within a frame (or better, a table) moving whilst the background stays had better give it to me, or I will find out you've been holding out >:( . See, monobrow powers attack! Thursday, June 10, 2004
I am sitting here looking at harry potter pics,wishing I was watching the movie, And I saw this pic 
Is it just me or do youget the impression, when you see two kids walking out of a forest, with worried looks on their faces, that maybe something fishy has been going on?? Cause I do. Crazy kids! Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Absolute Punk Forums - And When Their Hope Is Gone, I'm Waiting Please, everyone sign up and say I made you do it, I want free stuff from the douchebag! Yes, even the people I dont like! do it! Comments - Powered by HaloScan.com hehehehhe. I'm so looking forward to our little honeymoon ;P . Why has no one got us wedding presents, yet? So rude! Monday, June 07, 2004
Tickling The Sleeping Dragon This comic is soooooo cute. My favourite bit is the extra "ask prof lupin" part, about all the ships, where he and harry are both puking over the idea or hermione/draco. So cute. Friday, June 04, 2004
deviantART: muskawo I added one thing. I'll have to add more stuff. I just haven't been that into it lately! Oh well, discipline! dammit! exclamation! Thursday, June 03, 2004
FictionAlley.org - FanFic in All Shapes, Sizes & SHIPs! LOL! I love that kid! The little punk. Makes me so proud. Wednesday, June 02, 2004
FRONTIER TOURING CO >> DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL OMFG. I am so excited. It's five freaking months, man! Thats more than some aussie bands tour! Dude, wow, just, wow... If anyone wants me to get tickets for them, I have credit now so I can do it from home, most excellente. I'm seriously considering taking some time off work and going to the sydney and melbounre shows! NEWS.com.au | Entertainment | Vines' US tour in doubt (June 01, 2004) Oh man, they suck so much. I hope this ruins them, I really hope it does. Stupid loser with his fake brittish accent. I'm so glad everyone hates them now, they deserve it for jumoing on the bandwagon. I hope garage rock just dies out soon cause I'm really gettingsick on it. We're not living int he 70's, so stop trying to sound like you are. Musics' meant to be about change and evolution, not about 20 bands that all sound the same on the radio one after the other. But I listen to screamo.... so... I guess I can't really talk. Difference is, you don't hear TBS or glassjaw on ipod ads every 2 seconds like you do with jet. Punknews.org | Story Of The Year jumped by Godsmack at radio festival Here's another reason to hate nu-metal. Even though SOTY are kinda lame and poppy, they are still okay, and youdont deserve to be bashed up no matter how bad your music is. I'll have to go check out how (douche-bag) tate is covering this... the emo mall punx dont seem to care as much Monday, May 31, 2004
I have my second band practice on Wednesday. We have to decide a name for our band, and learn more songs before our first gig on saturday night. I still reckon "the crazy 88" would be a rad name for a band. If anyone wants to come on saturday night, call me and I'll inform you of the details of our show. Even if you don't there will be lots of other people there, so meh. But you should come, stringa, cause you told me you have all weekend off.(I would have come to Sydney with you next weekend if it wasn't for the gig, it would have been cool. I'm gonna hold you to going to sydney with me) I can't believe I got String to start calling harvey normal hardly normal. I'm so proud. I can't decide what to buy next, an ibook, a tablet, a good amp, a car, a lowrider, a new md and probably some other things. I still have a grand left from my last pay, but I don't know if I wanna spend it now, or save it. I'm really bad atsaving since I got my new job. I feel like every weekend I buy lot of crap that i'm not gonna use. And too much alcohol. My closet is filled with alcohol cause I buy it and then dont feel like drinking it! I guess it will be good for the next party I go to, though. I can't remember where I left my lapel microphone. it's so annoying. I bought a new one, though, so I could record on webnesday if we wrote any good songs.it's not a laple one, just a normal mic shaped mic, with a little stand. I got a discount on it thanks to String :) . Dashboard Confessional Pictures, Chris Carrabba Bio, Band Pics Stuff We’re Scared Of: Karaoke hehehehe. I'll bet. It would be cute, though. I used to list listening to mucis as one of my hobbies when I was younger, but I stopped cuase I thought it was lame to call that a hobbie.I guess it is one, though. Actually, he has pretty much the same list of hobbies as I would have had when I was about 15.
Stringa's Stuff I was gonna say what I did on sunday, but Stringa has already done that so well, so now I dont have to! :) Sunday, May 30, 2004
count how many times I say garage rock... (kill bill 2 spoilers, too) On friday night I got home and I was meant to go to Kate's party, but I felt kinda sick and my throat was still sore from my flu. So anyway, Shell and Maddy wanted me to go over to practice, so I did, and it was really fun! They were so surprised at how well I can play the guitar (not bragging I can play well, they were just surprised that i could play chords and stuff, cause I had told them I wasn't that good. They thought I meant I was crap, but I just meant I dont know any technical stuff and how to play metal solos and stuff!) It was really fun. I showed them a new song I have written and Shell started putting a bassline to it. It's a bit of a different style for me, I pretty much wrote it as a joke cause it's garage rock and I hate garage rock. But they really liked the riff, so I guess it will be one of our songs! I tried writing some lyrics to it, just kinda payout garage bands whilst playing a garage rock song! So it should be fun. After that we went to the shops to buy alcohol and I saw stringa! He has personalised number plates. Oh by the way, you two boys who work at safeway have to say hi to the new guy, antony, in the bottle-o, cause I said you would. I was asking him if he knew anyone and he didn't! So talk to him. Even if it's just like, "you smell". We packed up my guitar (Shell said I could borrow one of her pedals, it's so cool, good little distortion pedal.) and went 'round to Maddy's place. Her dogs have just had puppies, I don't know how old they are, but they have just opened their eyes and they are sooooooooo cute. I had a little black one sitting on me, and they can't even walk properly yet, they just drag themselves along, and make whimpering noises. One crapped on Shell, so then everyone didn't like the puppies anymore (I still did, though). There was an old pullout from the age sitting on the coffee table, and it was the one about harry potter 3 coming out. It is a huge broadsheet pick of Daniel Radcliffe. So I asked if I could have it, and they said yes so now it is up on my wardrobe door. We went into maddy's room (she has pics of Christina Aguilera everywhere on her walls and it scares me! So much Christina, so little clothing!) and started to watch Kill Bill, but then they got bored. I had never seen it though, so I borrowed it. It was so funny though, cause it's a pirate dvd, the english subtitles were stuck on and they are really wrong. Like, at the start where the little girl cmes home and her mother says it was the dog, in the translation, it says it was her horse! So funny. I somehow managed to turn them off at my house though. We went on the internet for awhile, then sat around listening to music, and around 12 I called my parents to pick me up and I went home. It's so good knowing people in Lara who want to start a band. Plus it gives me something to do without going miles away. Plus Maddy and Shell don't know me well enough yet, so they are still on the stage of thinking I am really cool and interesting! The spoilers start after this bit On Saturday Morning I got up and watched Kill Bill, cause we had decided we would go to see the sequel that afternoon. I cried heaps! It's so stupid, but I thought it was a really sad movie! I cried when the little girl came in and saw *Uma Thurmans character* (I wont spoil it too much for people who haven't seen the second one by using heyr character's name) had just killed her mum. I cried in the anime bit where the girl was under the bed and her mum got stabbed and the sword came through the bed, too. And when she woke up in the hospital and she was screaming cause her baby was gone. Those guys were such assholes, that buck dude. It's funny though, it's meant to be a really gory movie, but it didn't really gross me out because you know it's not real, because peoples arms and legs are getting chopped off, and blood is spraying everywhere. The only gross thing in the two movies was anything to do with the eyes being gouged out. And when it was squished! Everyone in the movie theatre was going "ughhhh! yuck!" That woman was so evil, tho. What she did to the swishy beard man. Was he meant to be funny? Because I was pissing myself! Anyway, after I watched it, Shell and Maddy picked me up and we went into town. Maddy had free movie tickets, so we didn't have to pay, whcih was really nice. We got sushi for lunch, but I didn't enjoy it as much as usual because of my cold. Then we went to see Kill Bill 2. There were harry potter posters everywhere. I'll have to get my ticket, soon, but I don't know who I'm going with yet. that movie loosk sooo soo good. The angst! Oooh, I love emo harry. He just gets more and more emo with every book. He should dye his hair black and but it in an emo hairstyle and start a screamo band with neville and ron and Hermione and sing about hating Voldemort and how he used to like cho but she is too emo now (in a bad way) and Sirus and Cedric, and his parents. But yeah. That will never happen... unless we all start sending Jk heaps of emo and screamo cds and saying "this is what kids listen to! put it in your books!". Harry could go see Funeral for a Friend or something. That would be so cool. But back to the movie. I thought it was really good, and I don't really know why I never watched them before.. it's weird. I think i thought they looked kinda lame. I thought the second one was really sad, too. I hated that stupid cowboy, what a pathetic character. Ans the casket scene is the worst thing ever. You just keep thinking "Oh my God, she can't die, but how the hell is she gonna get out of this one?" And when you can hear the dirt falling.Its so scary. Bill reminded me of John Druce for some reason. I can imagine John sending people off to china to some crazy man to learn to draw better! It's weird, I hated all the other characters, but I didn't hate him. He was horrible to her( he shot her in the head, what's worse than that?), but he didn't seem evil. Which made it hard. Anyone who hasn't seen it yet, should, cause it's really good. But if you dont like snakes, or spit, or blood, or you're afraid of the dark, you might freak out at some parts. Friday, May 28, 2004
eBay item 4015392737 (Ends 02-Jun-04 17:08:07 AEST) - DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL STICKERS *2001 RARE* EMO Vagrant "THE WEINER PAYS SHIPPING" Glad to hear it! Does that mean I don't have to pay? Thursday, May 27, 2004
Punknews.org | Pseudo Heroes judged guilty by association / Sam speaks out To me, there is no such thing as a right wing punk, the only right wing punks there have ever been are nazi punks, and why would you want to be one of those? Punk is a very socialist left thing to the point of being very involved with the anarchist movement at times (one of those times was NOT when Johnny rotten put it in a song to sound cool). Right wing and punk just dont mix. Right wing people are more likely to be pro capitalism, anti gay marrige, anti equal rights, pro war, pro america etc. This is not a stereotype. They have defined themselves as this way by voting the way they do. Can you imagine a real punk thinking this way, or agreeing with these things? " think having a diversity of opinion in punk rock is essential to punk rock's very soul. Fascism from the left or the right is still fascism -- intolerance sucks." Intolerance doesn't suck. I'm intolerant of racism, sexism, homopbia etc, and I dont think that's a bad thing. I'm intolerant of people who think George Bush is doing a good job, because they aren't thinking straight.I'm intolerant of wars that don't need to be fought. I'm sitting at my desk right now designing a new men's bag (for clothing) and the size specs are based on that urban attitude bag that andrew hoyne did. It's so tacky , but I'm thinking maybe it was designed awhile ago, so it's not so bad. I just really dont like that font. I have a thing about fonts, you can make the best piece of art in the world, but if the font is wrong, it is going to look crap, no matter what. I dont like the pattern in the background either... but I liked those little postcards they had awhile ago. I dont know if they were designed by the same place though. I think a lot of the people I've seen at AGIdeas haven't been as good as they thought they were. Dom Bartolo has gone down a lot in my eyes since the whole sorry day thing on australian infront. I dont think it was the right place to bring in something so political and contravercial (I can, tell, looling at that that i spelt it wrong, controversial? ummm, dont have a spell checker on me, soo). People are being judged for their opinions on that site and I think it's damaging friendships a bit... it looks like it, anyway (im just a lurker, so I probably dont know much about it, anyway). But yeah, I think it was a silly thing to do. My first ever practise has been moved to tomorrow night, cause I have the flu, but hopefully it'll be better by friday. I'm so excited, it's gonna be so fun. I think this pay I'll buy a few pedals, I also want an electronic tuner. I was bidding on a cool guitar strap on eba, but it has gone up to 20.50 us, whish is way too much to pay for a guitar strap. It was a black and white check dickies one. I won an auction for a 7inch vinyl of Rapid Hope Loss this morning. It's gonna be cool when it comes. I also bought the new version of mmbs last week so it should arrive sometime next week, the one with the REM dvd. I hope the dvd works here, otherwise I'll just buy the aussie version and have two copies! I want the japanese copy that has teenage dirtbag on it. That would be so cool. Theres all this stuff on the radio about depression at the moment cuase of that footy player. What I dont get is, how could a football player get depressed? They get heaps of money, they are allowed to break the law (even rape people!) without any consequences, everyone treats them like heros, and they never have to work a day of their lives. Maybe there's something I'm missing, but there doesn't seem to be much to be sad about. I always get angry the way the media cares more about famous people being sick than 'real' people. There are so many people with depression, and with the delta thing, so many people with cancer, but because they're not famous, no one gives a stuff. Like this happening wouldnt make the depressed people even more depressed? "oh, you have to be famous for people to care". I can tell why they are doing it, though. Male suicide is really really high. So it's probably like a role model thing so jocks wont kill themselves or something. I never really understand depression, though. I mean, no matter how bad you feel, there is always someone worse off, so it's pretty selfish. But I guess it's an illness so they cant help it. Wednesday, May 26, 2004
I'm so tired of this. I'm tired of hating people and being angry, i wish I could just go to sleep and when I woke up in the morning everything was gone. I dont like feeling like this about people. But I just feel so hurt. And I dont know how to make it go away. I just feel like the people I thought were my friends have all betrayed me. I don't know what to do... I just wish I could eraze all of my old life from my brain and start afresh. I'm sick of the lies, the twisted words. I'm sick of saying hurtful things... I just dont know what to do. Maybe I'll just take down all the mean stuff off this blog tomorrow, and get rid of all the negativty. I never wanted it to turn out like this. I dont deserve it, and I guess dan doesn't deserve it., But I feel like why should he get away with it all? I guess I'm just as bad... he wont admit it, but he did lie. I wish he would admit it, there is stuff on there thats so not true, thats the stuff that hurts the most. Maybe it's true in his mind though, which means i cant blame him, I guess. I just wish he would admit he was wrong for posting that mean stuff and take it down. I would take stuff down for him if it really upset him, and I probably will take down all of my most recent posts. But I'm just gonna go to bed now. And have weird feverish dreams from the flu I've got (they are kinda scary, but the felling of being in a daze constantly is cool) I guess wishes dont ever come true, either. So I'll have to learn to live with the lies. (which they are, I think I would know what has happened in my own life) Saturday, May 22, 2004
should I stay or should I go? Okay, I used to be a part of this really cool harry potter (cringe) community called diagon alley and I'd go there a few times a day and talk to all the people there and it was really fun. But then it started to change, people started to get cliquey (which I hate) people started getting mean, and the wrong people were being made into mods. Well anyway, I left, cuase it wasn't fun anymore. There was nothing keeping me there. Anyway, when wasabiklan started I never wanted it to turn out to be a negative place, but it's happened and it feels like it's too late. There's a person there I just hate too much to ever make up with (and he hates me a lot more, anyone who wastes that much time bitching on their blog has a pretty big grudge) and it's destroyed the whole community feel. I wanna stay, and I'm probably gonna stay, but it's never gonna be the same. I wanna stay just for doug, cause it was never between me and him. But I feel like the power has been taken away from us, the people who started the whole thing in the first place. I guess I'll just have to keep thinking about it. For the next however long, just think of any posts saying "I'm leaving" as "I'm super pissed off and I'm not gonna post for awhile". :) Friday, May 21, 2004
Check it out This stuff is pretty good, I had a fight with my mum about iraq the other day and she got so mad she threatened to kick me out. SHe didn't though, of course. I bet this is just like the vietnam kids all over again, protesting and hating war, except not it's the punks who hate war, the 'hippies' are too busy listening to surf folk shit. Do any real hippies actual exist anymore? Or are they all just smelly posuers now? (IE john butler - I hate that dude). Actually, I thinking of starting a new segment on my blog called things I hate and why I think they suck. Mainly because people say I hate too much, and I wanna put some arguments up behind my hate. Punkvoter VS urban outfitters. You know, the best solution would be to make voting compulsary in the US. I have a urban outfitters sampler here from the US (probably from a old sample trip) and it has punks bands on it. Dumb. This is cool, that's all I have to say Dying. Of. Laughter My theory. Theory #1, that is mine. I used to think about this a lot when I was younger. This guy's entire blog is pretty amazing. The art is fantastic, and the blog is much more like your usual visual journal that a blog with short little comments on things. Have a look, I enjoyed reading it. (I bet John would have loved this blog) This weekend I'm going to an 18th birthday and a work BBQ. It's weird now, I have quite a few friends that are younger than my sister (the youngest is 14!) but it doesn't really bother me at all. At school, you were onyl ever friends with people in your year, or a year either side (maybe this was onyl at the schools I went to). But now, I just talk to whoever is willing to listen. it's fun meeting new people and talking away about nothing, and I'm learning not to be so introverted when i'm around people. It's funny though, it's mainly younger kids I've learnt that from. they don't care who they're talking to, they just talk to you. Myabe I'm just more confident than I used to be. I would like to think that I am. Anyway, I'm not going to know many people at this party, so if someone wants to come, leave a message in the comments or sms me. I still have to buy a pressent, too. I have no idea what to get! Tomorrow I'm meant to be finally paying Nat back her fifteen dollars. She said we could maybe go out for lunch after, but... I dunno, I just feel like she doesnt like me much anymore. I feel like I wont know what to talk about. And it sucks when that happens. I think we used to be pretty good friends, I'm not really sure, But I guess we weren't if it's so easy to feel like that. I guess the main problem is I've had too many "friends" end up stabbing me in the back so I don't trust anyone anymore. I'm still far too open, though. I wish none of my friends knew anything about me, cause it always ends up turning into an attack. I know a lot of people who are so fake, but at least they never get hurt. They can act hurt, but it's not the same. But yeah, I liked being friends with Nat, but... well. I'm not going to dwell on things anymore. I keep finding out I can make new freinds if I want. I dont want people being friends with me just for the sake of it. Cause that's lame. I guess I'll just see what happens tomorrow.  Emo! You're very in touch with your emotions and that's what I like about you! It's all about the music for you... I have pity for your tortured soul...you're just like me... What genre of rock are you? brought to you by Quizilla emo!?!?!?! I'm not emo! Wednesday, May 19, 2004
Monday, May 17, 2004
this is really cool, I mean, everyone already knows about this , but for the people who did my quiz, I was just looking over lyrics from brand new's new album and I found the ones fromt he old one, so I went to look at the taking abck sunday lyrics and yeah... "Seventy Times 7" Back in school they never taught us what we needed to know Like how to deal with despair of someone breakin your heart For twelve years I've held it all together but a night like this is beggin to pull me apart I played it quiet left you deep in conversation I felt uncool and hung out around the kitchen I remember I kept thinking that I know you never would And now I know I want to kill you like only a best friend could Everyone's caught on to everything you do Everyone's caught on to... As if it happening wasn't enough I got to go and write a song just to remind myself how bad it sucked Ignore the sun, covers over my head Wrote a message on my pillow that says "Jesse, stay asleep in bed" Don't apologize (I hope you choke and die!) Search your shelf for something which to hang yourself They say you need to pray if you want to go to heaven But they don't tell you what to say when your whole life has gone to Hell! Everyone's caught on to everything you do Everyone's caught on to... (and I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to everything you do (and I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to... So is that what you call a getaway? Tell me what you got away with Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids Have another drink and drive yourself home I hope there's ice on all the roads And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt and again when your head goes through the windshield Is that what you call tact? You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back So let's end this call and end this conversation And is that what you call a getaway? Tell me what you got away with Cause you left the frays from the ties you severed when you say "best friends" means friends forever Is that what you call a getaway?!! Tell me what you got away with!! Cause I've seen more spine in jellyfish!! I've seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids!! Have another drink and drive yourself home!! I hope there's ice on all the roads!! And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt then when your head goes through the windshield!! (I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to everything you do (and I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to... (I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to everything you do (and I can't let you let me down again) Everyone's caught on to... "There's No "I" In Team" Well I can't regret, can't you just forget it? I started something I couldn't finish And if we go down, we go down together best friends means, well best friends means And I've got a twenty-dollar bill that says you're up late night starting fist fights versus fences in your backyard Wearing your black eye like a badge of honor Soaking in sympathy from friends who never loved you nearly half as much as me Broken down in bars and bathrooms All I did was what I had to Don't believe me when I tell you it's just what anyone would do Take the time to talk about it Think a lot and live without it Don't believe me when I tell you it's something unforgivable...ohoh Well I can't regret, can't you just forget it? I started something I couldn't finish If we go down, we go down together best friends means, well best friends means You never knew well i never told you... Everything I know about breaking hearts I learned from you, it's true I've never done it with the style and grace you have But I've made long term plans based on these mistakes Broken down in bars and bathrooms All I did was what I had to Don't believe me when I tell you it's just what anyone would do Take the time to talk about it Think a lot and live without it Don't believe me when I tell you it's something unforgivable Is this what you call tact? I swear you're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back so let's end this call, and end this conversation there's nothing worse... (that's right he said, that's right he said it) I swear, you have no idea The jealousy that became me thinking (that's right he said) that you always had it way too easy Broken down in bars and bathrooms All I did was what I had to Don't believe me when I tell you it's just what anyone would do Take the time to talk about it Think a lot and live without it Don't believe me when I tell you it's something unforgivable Best friends means I pulled the trigger Best friends means you get what you deserve Best friends means I pulled the trigger Best friends means you get what you deserve Best friends means I pulled the trigger Best friends means you get what you deserve Best friends means I pulled the trigger Best friends means you get what you deserve Best friends means I pulled the trigger Best friends means you get what you deserve Best friend thinks I pulled the trigger!!! Best friend thinks you get what you deserve!!! Dashboard Confessional - Civic Tour 2004 - Tour Dates, Tickets You know those pics of girls lying on "cool" cars that boys love so much? well this is a slightly different slant on that... Hey everyone! well I had a pretty cool weekend. On Saturday I went out to tea with the wasabiklanners, then I went to see some bands. Allie gave me a really cool birthday present (thankyou allie!)ANd I had a really nice tea at cats (the caesar salad had anchovies! yay) then an icecream which I was too full to eat so I gave it to my dad.After that I went to the barwon club to see I deny,behind crimson eyes, Lost boy found and kiss chasey. My faves were behind crimson eyes and kiss chasy, but overall it was a really good show, no crappy bands at all (the crowd were slightly crappy tho, but I met up with mel and sim and we danced to LBF in front of everyone!) I saw a few people I know, but none of the usual geelong punk crowd (which was odd, was there another show on?) But yeah, I was a cool night. On sunday i went to melbourne to go shopping, so I'm really tired now but I have to work! LOL, at least work is still kinda fun, and not totally crap! I got some cool diesel sweeties stuff in the mail, including a small part of daniels birthday present. I don't know what to do with his present now cuase he's decided to hate me! (go see his blog if you don't beleive me) oh well, what can you do about it? We might be going to the movies next weekend if anyone wants to come... it's troy, which I reckon will be kinda crappy, but I like popcorn and watered down coke... Friday, May 14, 2004
Australian INfront Forums (Logged in as: muskawo): "Again, I agree with the Sorry concept. Go ahead, I'll say Sorry to anyone if they genuinely feel that it will allow them to become happier with their lot in life. But aren't we all Australians here? Aren't we all plagued, to varying degrees I'm sure, by issues of terror, race, disadvantage and on and on" If you get time you should all read this thread, it's interesting to see how different people's views can be. Thursday, May 13, 2004
demise magazine - issue one - feb 04' - about a girl I hate the girl on page 11. well I don't it's just... where did she get that tee? It's impossible to get that tee anymore! I wish they would bring it back... Festival Mushroom Records :: News "The next single from the ‘A Mark...’ album will be Bend and Not Break. The release date will be leaked through this very site so watch this space. And one last thing…Dashboard Confessional is currently planning the second tour of Australia, which is looking to be late this year. We’re so excited that we think our pants might explode." Exploding pants? I dont think so. Monday, May 10, 2004
Noise This year I really have to enter noise. Every year I plan to, but never do it, but this year I have to. Friday, May 07, 2004
Australian INfront Forums: "ARIES MARCH 21 – APRIL 20 Nothing seems to ruffle you more than a lack of discipline, disloyalty and decorum. But Arians are also known to go into a rage very easily when challenged. Those of you who have been on the receiving end of the Aries temper know that if not calmed down they can even get violent. But one thing is certain if the opponent remains calm and does not react to their outburst, Arians cool down very fast. They are also the first to apologise, which makes them easier to forgive. " so true. And omg, the blog this thing is cooler than I first thought. It automatically pasted the text I had copied. Wow. Tuesday, May 04, 2004
CBC RADIO 3 / 2.34 / APRIL 30 - MAY 6, 2004 Hey this is such a cool idea. Maybe we should all take photos of oursleve every day just to see how we change. (not when we first wake up ,though!!!! Monday, May 03, 2004
 people are always asking what stuff is coming out soon at cotton on. Well this design is one of them that shoul dbe coming out soon. It was printed here in geelong.MSNBC - New device allows recording at concerts This is so so so so so so so so so so so so so cool. How many years will it take to come to melbourne, or even geelong, though? :( Compare Web Hosting Providers @ ComparisonShopOnline.com Okay, post in the comments which one you guys think is best. Maybe we could all share, use one for the wasabi kids, then you could all have someone.wasabiklan.com webpages. Or is anyone planning on putting up a server from home sometime soon? You know what would be great? If we could have the feature we all use in different places on the net (blogs, images, mail etc) all in one place. it would make a lot more sense. If we get the wasabi store up and running, it might be able to pay the monthly space fees for us. Wasabi Image Design :: View topic - the super duper quizzy search scavenger hunt thing! Wow, forgot to mention this, anyone who hasn't entered my comp yet should, because the prize with be worth it, when I think of what it is. Also... May 27th Armaggedon Sky are playing at the barwon club. That's a thursday, but you guys should all go cause it's Adam's band, and Adam is cool.Did you know last Thrusday I wore my Thrusday teeshirt in a strange coincedence? I felt like such an idiot. Oh, they are playing at the potato shed on the 29th, a show I should be able to get to cause it's a saturday, 'cept it's in drysdale if anyone feels like giving me a ride out that way (we can stay at my beach house after!)I'm willing to get a taxi if enough other people wanna go out there (and you all should!) Insight_introduction See the little tv in the corner. Click it. We so have to enter this comp as a wasabi group. It would be so fun. Well, I had a cool weekend, I don't know about everyone else. Still looking for somewhere good to host pics. Maybe I'll just fork out a few bucks and buy some space on blogger for pics. But If I did that, i'd have to start actually getting serious abdout this thing and not just using it to link to stupid stuff. I'm almost finished reading Nothing feels good by Andy Greenwald And it's been pretty cool. The new generation are apparently one of crying net-geeks. Hey, but to even be a blogger, I have to be one of those myself. Just check the achives and the ammount of Dashboard references there are! This magazine is really good, and you should all check it out. I've gotta remember to start getting receipts wiht my mags so I can claim them on tax. Did you know I get over $150 taken out in tax every pay? That's more than I used to make in a week! Sometimes I really wonder why people need so much welfare... *grrrr*..... Hey, people, start commenting again! Dan gets heaps of comments, it's not fair! I want comments! Now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111one. Thursday, April 29, 2004
Friday, April 23, 2004
Re: The Hothouse - GO PETE & TINA !!! yeah. go pete and tina. If you wanna know what type of people support pete and tina, check out this site. Homopobic bigots who are toatl bogans. If you support pete and tina, you support this. Tuesday, April 13, 2004
FUCK YOU, PETE AND TINA! Man I feel embarressed to be an Australian sometimes. Tonight on the hot house people were yelling out faggot at one of the gay guys and his father went over to the fence to tell them off. Then they said *he* was being rude. These are the same people support the absolute dregs of society, Pete and Tina. What kind of country do I live in where white trash are hailed as heros and homosexuals deserve all the insults they get, no matter how much higher in society they are than the people giving them. I've never felt so disgusted. Are we really as uneducated and slovenly as this show protrayed us (the public) tonight? Someone please convince me otherwise. Australians love to scoff at Americans, but we are no better. In many ways, we are a lot worse. Pete and Tina don't derve that house, until they work hard and start to ast like humans beings rather than walking pieces of shit. Okay, Tina isn't that bad, but she must be pretty dumb to have married that horrible excuse for a man. Maybe I'm boganist or something, but nothing would give me more joy than to see that cretin be put out of his misery. In closing I'd just like to say, you can win a two million dollar house on TV, but if you're born white trash, you'll die white trash, and I'd proudly spit on your graves. Thursday, April 08, 2004
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
I had my first day of work today, I have a desk with a g4 and the newest versions of photoshop, indesign and illustrator (that's CS, doogle :D ) The computer was stuffed up for most of the day, do I just walked around looking at stuff and taking photos of clothing to put in the database. Tomorrow I have to design three prints for trucker hats! should be fun. Everyone there is really nice there, they all talk to me and I don't know anyone's name so I feel so bad. I keep seeing clothes I know Allie or katie would like, especially kate. There a jeans coming out that I think I might buy.Anyway, i'm looking forward to tomorrow! Sunday, April 04, 2004
Absolute Punk Forums - The Movie You've Come To Fear The Most Oh man, dashboard and motion city soundtrack on the same freaking tour. My brain would explode with joy. It's kinda funny, cuase me kate and allie were singing mcs songs in line for dashboard in march. I wish chris would bring them out here. Friday, April 02, 2004
MEET THE WHIMPSTER: THE MANIPULATIVE ASSHOLE IN SENSITIVE CLOTHING. "My tummy hurts from coming so hard. Did you come? Did I make you happy?" LMAO!!!!!!!!! so funny. you may or may not have realised I used my computer to edit this pic. look closely and you will see not all the writing is handwriting! the woners of modern technology!!! Thursday, April 01, 2004
Punknews.org | Tim Armstrong co-writes new Avril Lavigne album Oh My God. I am so easily fooled. But Tim Armstrong has like no cred anymore, so this wouldn't surprise me. Man, some classic quotes in this interview "I'm too short to be a poster boy" ! LOL! LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND Chris Carrabba's songs of broken hearts and shattered dreams have struck a universal chord. Now it's Australia's turn to join the cult of Dashboard Confessional. Chris Carrabba is exhausted. His eyes are vacant, his walk slow and laboured. For the first time today, Dashboard Confessional's frontman looks like he doesn't have an answer, like he doesn't have a choice, and like the only place he really wants to be right now is in bed. But, even though the clock has just struck midnight, there is still work to be done. Outside the University of New South Walkes Roundhouse - a large circular venur which only an hour ago was resonating with the sound of 1,800 punters singing every word to every Dashobard Confessional song - a line of fans extends 50 yards from the backstage exit to the tiny van that will transport Carrabba to his hotel; fans who have spent their pocket money of an Dashboard Confessional T-shirt; fans who want his signature on their arm; fans who just want to be a part of this. "I wish I had more time to spend with them all," sighs Carrabba, sprawled on a seat in the band's spacious dressing room. "That's the only regret I have about the shows getting bigger: I want to give people equal time, but I could never get out of there, so I just have to be as gracious as I can with the chortest amount of time that I feel comfortable giving them. It's midnight now, and we're not gonna leave this room for another half an hour, and then it's going to take us at least an hour to get through that crowd, and we've got a 6:30 band call for the airport..." He lets out a small, slightly helpless chuckle. "But if I talked to tem as much as I wanted to talk to them I wouldn't make it to the airport, let alone the hotel." Welcome to another day in the life of Chris Carrabba. Welcome to life inside the cult of Dashboard Confessional. Rewind 11 hours, and Chris Carrabba's day has not started well. After waking for an early morning flight - the enemy of any touring musician - from Brisbane to Sydney, he arrived at his hotel to learn that the band's luggage had not followed suit. A faulty sink meant Carrabba then had to swap rooms, on top of which he's just been told that Kerrang! will be spending the entire day with him, not just the 10 minutes he'd been led to believe was all we wanted of his time. Lucky then, that Chris Carrabba is a man with a healthy sense of perspective. Rather than use the morning's events as an excuse for a tantrum, the vocalist instead apologises profusely for making us wait and outlines the reasons for the delay. Sitting in the hotel's plain, sun-drenched courtyard, a tight-fitting black cap shading him from the late summer glare, he dismesses these problems as "stupid, non-life-threatening crap. The small stuff just gets on your nerves," he says. "That's all, it's not so bad." Although Dashboard Confessioanl's first tour of Australia is only one date old, already it's a resounding success, with each show completely, or close to, sold-out (average size: 1,200 people). Chris Carrabba is "slack jawed" at the response they recieved in Brisbane last night, and resembles a proud parent as he describes how "the kids" were "so loud" and "so involved." WHEN WAS THE FIRST TIME YOU REALISED DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL HAD THE POTENTIAL TO SUCCEED? "During my first show I thought I was onto something, but it really had nothing to do with hoping for success. It was more about how great it made me feel. I don't really mean the reaction from the kids, it was purely joy at just doing what I was doing." WHAT WERE YOUR HOPES FOR IT THEN? "I don't know that I really had high hopes. I just thought it was going to be something I could do quite low-key. I really thought it was going to be a side-project. But I've far exceeded that with Dashboard. I could coast now a little bit I think, but I like to work hard, so I have to figure out what I'm going to aim for next. But we're not on a world domination plan." HOW BIG WOULD YOU LIKE DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL TO GET? "I guess as big as the kids let it. It's strange: Dashboard has this community of supporters where they're bringing the new fans in rather than me. So I guess it depends on how long they're happy with with it being big, or bigger." BUT SURELY YOU PLAY SOME ROLE IN THAT? "If the kids decide that's where they want it to go, then that's where it will go. It's so driven by them that I don't think there's anything more I can do. If they want it to stay where it is, it will stay where it is. If they want their friends to come, they'll tell their friends." "The kids" is a term Chris Carrabba uses a lot. He'll explain how the kids are in charge at DC shoes; he'll gush with pride at the community that has sprung up around the band, and estimates that he gets at least 1,000 e-mails a day from kids, whose messages range from a simple "thanks for your music" to deeper, sometimes heartbreaking tales of how it's helped them through hard times. He mentions one such e-mail from a girl in South Carolina who was involved in a bad car accident. "I called her a couple of times and we had some letters back and forth and e-mails and she's doing great," he smiles. "We do whatever we can but we get so many letters it's a shame, because we probably miss a lot of things." Any scepticism about Chris Carrabba's devotion to the kids - that it might be an act in the name of publicity - is washed away when he arrives at the UNSW Roundhouse for the sundcheck. Standing by the back entrance are eight young fans - seven girls, one guy - who, upon spotting their idol, stand smiling but silent, almost in shock. "Hey!" says Chris animatedly. "I'm a bit pressed for time," he explains, "but I'll do I what I gotta do then I'll come back and chat in a bit." But he does more than that. Minutes later, a crew member comes out and invites the posse - who have been waiting here for EIGHT hours - into the venue so they can watch the soundcheck. By the time the band leave hald an hour later for a sightseeing strip to Sydney Harbour, their van has been surrounded by dozens more fans. Chris Carrabba signs every CD and article of clothing, poses for EVERY photo, smiling all the way, even though the light his fading quickly, and with it this only chance on this tour to visit some australian landmarks. HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN PEOPLE CALL YOU AN ICON? "Wouldn't you expect I'd have to be older? I do. I think it's flattering, especially when I don't think that I've put my best foot forward yet. But I don't feel our scene needs someone to pin their hopes to - there's enough of us to go around. You wanna know the truth? I think Jesse from Brand New is going to be the stand-out icon from this whole movement. I guess I'll keep the trophy warm for him for a little while (laughs)." WHAT ABOUT THE TERM "POSTER BOY"? "I'm too short to be a poster boy (laughs). I've really tried to block that tag for a long time." DOES IT BOTHER YOU WHEN PEOPLE REFER TO "THE CULT OF DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL"? "It's actually something I'm proud of because it's such a finely knit community with an amazing interaction on so many levels. People call it a cult-ish thing because it goes beyond the shows, but I think the word just has a negative connotation. I wish someone could think of a better word." DO YOU THINK PEOPLE'S PERCEPTION OF YOU IS ACCURATE? "Some people get it spot on and some people get it way wrong. I'm not really an open book. If they're talking about the songs, if they're taking their view of me from my songwriting and what they hear on records, it's a pretty close, accurate assessment of how I am." QUITE OFTEN THOSE EMOTIONS ARE QUITE EXTREME, BE THEY SAD OR HAPPY. ARE YOU A PERSON OF EXTREMES? "No, I don't htink so. I write my songs in the same way that I write in my journal; I try to let myself just feel to the maximum, I think that's how I write my songs. But how you carry yourself through the day isn't necessarily quite that extreme. I'm probably a classic introvert with socail tendancies. Like once I feel comfortable and once I can break the ice a little bit then I can pal around with the best of them. I'm the kid who gets invited to the cool parties but sits in the corner and doesn't know how to start talking to the pretty girls (laughs)." Stuck in the whirlwind that is Dashboard Confessional, but standing slightly off centre, are drummer Mike Marsh, buitarist John Lefler and bassist Scott Schoenbeck. At different points today Carrabba will emphasise the importance of each to the band dynamic, but his bandmates understand they're not the stars of the show and are actually quite happy about that. Mike Marsh describes Carrabba as "sincere, very honest, very smart, very intense and very serious a lot of the time." He is, adds John Lefler, also "very funny". "Sometimes I personally worry a bit about Chris," frowns Marsh. "I think he's a bit overworked. I can see it in Chris' eyes, he's just worn out. It worries me a little bit because such a good friend." As the clock strikes midnight and Chris Carrabba enters his band's dressing room - another show done, another meet 'n' greet over - it's easy to understand Marsh's concerns. For the entire day Chris Carrabba has been courteous and responsive, funny and sincere, attentive and animated. But now, as Saturday night turns into Sunday morning, Chris Carrabba just looks tired. DOES IT EVER GET TOO MUCH FOR YOU? "Mostly, no. It never gets too much, but sometimes it feels overwhelming when you look at your schedule and you're like, 'I've gotta do all this? How many hours is that?'. But I'm packing 20 years of career into the five years I get to do it, so... I'll have plenty of time to sleep later." IS IT GOOD BEING CHRIS CARRABBA? "Yeah, it's very good being Chris Carrabba, or anyone like Chris Carrabba. I think anybody that is lucky enough to do what they love and have people love what they do is in a great place. It's really rewarding and encouraging and also motivating, So, yeah, I'm very ahppy being me." DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL'S NEW SINGLE, 'RAPID HOPE LOSS' IS OUT NOW ON VAGRANT. |
