wooo i just got back from the pantomime. i'm officially the sound/lighting operator but i'm gonna be doing sound every night. i'm the 'floating entity' in the control room so my jobscope encompasses everything. its pretty fun though i didn't have that much fun setting up all the lights and putting in all those late nights in the theatre. but as the lighting guy in the control room, blake, said the other day, it'll pay off when you see the show come together. and yep, i'm feeling pretty happy. moreover i got to play dj by selecting the house music cos somehow they forgot to set it before the show. oh and i got a free beer. i hope this is a staple for every night. oh and i got a free pantomime t-shirt too. supposed to wear it tomorrow for publicity but i have no school. i'll wear it anyway. solidarity. right. i'm not feeling hungry like i thought i would cos the past two late nights in theatre i've gotten really hungry. oh well. i'll wait for it to strike. two more nights of pantomime to go. then it's a week of preparation and rigging and rehearsals for my main production for my english unit. and then its a week long run. then finally. finally. i can get some rest. i should say time. cos i need to study and do all the work and essays that i won't have time for this few weeks. ok. i didn't mean for this to be such a boring diary post. so you can never come back here anymore.



theatre yeah.

goo morning lalies and gennermun.



i have a philo essay due tomorrow which i should be doing now, but i'm a bit bloated from all the philo researching i'm doing so it's time to let you in on another crazy weekend in perth.







everyone, this is sam. my main kaki in arts. last sem we had 3 common units. and we were in the same tutorial for one unit. this sem we have yet again 3 common units. and we were gunning to be in the same tutes for all 3 units but one of the tutes we opted for had so many people they split the class in two, and so we were seperated. very tragic. speaking of classes, me and sam just skipped our philo lecture at 9 and philo tute at 10 to do the essay. yes, i am using the time conducively.







what we were doing on this saturday was we were going to check out this music store that sam had seen from the bus on his way to somewhere called just music. we were supposed to go during the one week study break but i was too busy trying to study and whatever else. anyway we got there and it's a pretty cool place. got cheap guitars. not as cheap as in davis. but if i had to compare what i know in perth to what i know in singapore, just music would be the davis of perth. but with much better guitars. anyway. we got on the train to go to fremantle after the music store. this is sam on the train.







after eating at mcdonalds and walking around fremantle, we went to dome and chilled out a bit. he bought me coffee and also paid for my ice cream at mcdonalds. so we read some papers and i got excited over this sensational headline. anyway, if you look closely at the photo, it's of cambodian? viet? women marching in formation and carrying AKs. A to tha muthafuckin' K. i was too engrossed in the headline to pay attention to the photo.







later on, we walked around a bit more then went to wait for the bus to get home and supposedly get crackin' on the essay. he's not really posing for this shot. he was messaging his mother on his handphone.







on the bus. see that sun. that sun stays on our left for the whole journey back. and if you remember that ocean that you see in the train picture, the sun sets over that ocean in the evenings. and that is what you see whenever you go home from fremantle in the evenings. a hella relaxing view of the sun over the ocean on your left. i didn't take any photos of it though. that's so cheesy. one thing i should mention. notice sam is listening to something. the other headphone is plugged into my ear. and what we're listening to is local music from singapore. yeah baby. sam is a local music fan too. we listened to the oddfellows, stoned revivals, leslie low, the observatory, rita chao, the padres and force vomit. we've been sharing our treasures with each other. and know what, it feels really chilled out to be listening to 'the unity song' and coasting by the ocean with the sun about to set.







k final photo. that's me suckin' on a starburst lollipop and sam being excited about some cheap car rental company that we're passing. yeah yeah i realised all the photos are of sam and little else. when i feel like being a tourist and take photos of scenery instead i'll drop you guys a note.



back to work bitches.

ok kiddies, the comment box doesn't seem to be working in the previous post. so if you guys were putting up suggestions for me could you put them in the comment box for this post? or the post two posts ago? spanks a lot.



if they weren't suggestions, you can post it up again if you're bothered to.

yesterday was labour day in singapore? i didn't even know. did old soon juan hold a rally again? i hope he did. sucks to have holidays falling on saturdays.



anyway, yeah the radiohead concert was cancelled cos thom had some throat infection. so i didn't get to hear it on radio. but triple j was pretty efficient about things and they played about half an hour of their set from glastonbury last year i think and another acoustic set recorded in the bbc. the acoustic session was fantastic. just thom and jonny. so in the end, i did just spend the night in my room with the door closed listening to radiohead.



well, i'm way behind on schoolwork. and the school server that hosts the recorded lectures (that i have been missing) is down. so i can't do anything about it.



i've been busy sorting out sounds and music for the main play i'm involved in. sitting by the stereo searching for and playing assorted sound effects while the rest are rehearsing. it's quite a chore finding the right sounds like the right dog howl or rustling leaves or bullshit like that. anyone out there got any sounds or music that might be suitable please give a shout out to me. the play is "Gertrude - The Cry" by howard barker. it's quite jacobean and it's pretty dark and really emotional. and it's got sex and breast sucking and cock sucking in it. so if anyone's got any ideas or suggestions for music, that would be cool. so far, i'm trying to incorporate some radiohead, sigur ros and depeche mode in it. well actually just a sample from depeche mode.



yeah so that's it for now.

yes it has been pretty long hasn't it.



but well i didn't have anything interesting to say. which means i didn't really do anything interesting. but that doesn't mean i've been a hard worker in school either. i think i'm slacking off quite a bit.



things are getting hectic. i seem to be getting involved with more and more theatre productions. but i'm gonna try not to be part of the one that's coming up that's being put on by the university dramatic society. it's their take on smurfs which they call 'smerfs'. i gotta get my nose back into my books.



anyway i recently hijacked my flatmate, mindy's, mini fm receiver after i found out that the local radio station, triple j, is going to be broadcasting the entire radiohead concert from melbourne tonight. ok, you're thinking, a shitty little receiver. what's the fun in that. but when i hook it up to my subwoofer and speakers, baby it's like a hifi system.



in just a few days, i've heard the get up kids, countless oz acts, the new pj harvey single and a thom yorke interview. ahhh and tonight i'll be chillin' out to a whole live radiohead concert straight from melbourne. yeah, oz radio is definitely a million times better than radio back home.



do you hear that cong? radiohead and pj harvey. and every other act you've always wanted to see. eat it sucka. i'll tell polly you said hi.

the dvd and the blue album deluxe aint out yet. but a friend helped me check out the prices. the blue album deluxe is 44 dollars while the dvd is 35 dollars. and that's in oz dollars.



i am so going to have to cut down on my spending after i get my hands on those two.



if you go to the weezer site, you get to download or view clips of rivers and matt sharp playing together at one of matt sharp's campus gigs. it's a hella significant performance in the history of =w=. and from there you can get to matt's page where you get two more clips. nothing like seeing them two together and hearing those falsettoes again. no offence to scott shriner but matt was an original weezer. as one of the more vocal audience members hollered out in one of the clips, "matt and rivers. the way it should be."

i just finished my essay on pulp fiction last night. and i hate it. ugh.



should i rewrite should i rewrite should i rewrite.



yeah i don't have anything much to say up here but i thought i'd say something about schoolwork since everyone seems to be posting up stuff about schoolwork anyway.



well that's all, time for lunch. and more mulling over my essay.