2001-12-20
"Rely a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony... I'm so much better than I used to be, in love with love and lousy poetry" Weakerthans
I've been listening to this mix tape Miss Anna gave me on repeat from the minute I walked in.
The weakerthans and alkaline trio - TOTALLY in love with.
Last night we drove down the coast to see a band. Yes driving to see a band. It was out first time. and it was magical. A yummy dinner first, we didn't leave our city till half 8.
In the car Lucksmiths, singing so loud, putting arms out the window and feeling the wind. Clapping and singing along to the salteens screaming the verse that goes "CUL CHA". Remembering high school when listening to Kitty in the Tree. Also yelling out the window to random cars "Are you going to Arbuckle??!!!" or "Arbuckle is this way!!! " (and pointing) or just "ARUBUCKLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEE". we wished we had signs that said 'toot if you (heart) arbuckle' or we wished we were in the states, with thousands of other kids travelling to the same show, with indie rock blaring on all the radios.
We check in to a cheap motel and go to the show.
The Entry is cheap,. drinks even cheaper with out 6th drink free!!! Bring that right on.
The show was Arbuckle. A gorgeous pop band, who write the most beauitful songs that make me feel alive and warm and just so good.
During the support acts we got crazy drunk aka crunk. This made things even better.
Arbuckle were fucking brilliant. we danced and shimmied and showed some tit and wore heels with cuffed up jeans and looked out of place but had a sensational time!!!
The boys from arbuckle made special mention that we had come down from Brisbane. AWWW and played the new song of theirs that is fantastic.
I was told that later during the set as we were dancing one arbuckle said "I hope everyone is having as good a time as these girls" (I was dancing and singing too loud to hear, anna informs me of this)
Summerness = goodness
slept for a bit, ate a some cheap but shitty pancakes and drove back to the city to play with kittens and drink some juice.
and now this tape!!! yeah, this is what it's all about,. because now work is crazy right until christmas and I can't see anyone until after. So this is my pre christmas goodness.
Tonight is radio, and drinking vodka and listening to the get up kids and alkaline trio.
"She shoplifts some christmas gifts and a braclet for herself and cosiders phoning home, has some quarters in her hand but she sits down on the sidewalk and bits her bottom lip and spends the afternoon willing traffic lights to change" The weakerthans.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'll include this. My Sex- Elastica what i want.. ..mornings for the winter and afternoons for the summe ..is for you to be waiting round the other side of every door ..to walk thru the wardrobe of other bodies we have known ..fifteen minutes of you ..a lover who loves me when others have loved me not ..is a big love, two spoons in a drawer, the master plan ..a lover who can love me slowly ..to make your heartbeat faster ..is a room with a three bar fire like the one you had before, when you were poor, and i just liked you more ..to be in the park in the morning, the long shadows on the grass and the swans still asleep ..is to love you everywhere and everyhow ..to kiss you until our lips are numb ..kiss you 'til everywhere hurts all i want is to hear the rain against the window again .