bon jovi is the greatest.

we bought an mp3 cd in thailand of bon jovi's entire back catalog (which also included, as a bonus, nirvana's greatest hits - i'm guessing this was done because bon jovi and nirvana have the same fan base. clearly.) and it has greatly enriched the car ride experience. his lyrics are amazing and i am so completely jealous of how high he can sing those harmonies. current favs are 'always' and 'blaze of glory', the latter mostly because we just watched young guns 2 and it was awesome and the song has been stuck in my head.

here are some gorgeous photos of jon for your viewing pleasure.

go human.

a friend from... i don't know where he lives now but i met him in florida... had this posted on fb. cute little vid.

dear montreal.

thanks for the phone call. and for reminding me how much i miss alto's.

luuuuuv brennie.

sounds good, wintersleep.

this is my favourite song by them i think, but i couldn't find an official vid to put on here... so you get this 'sexy' vid that some guy made as his thesis. and his teach failed him too.



great great little clip and song.

:: saturday sunday tuesday ::

saturday :: locky's last night at lambsgo...









sunday :: ferris bueller at moonlight cinema...









tuesday :: old melbourne gaol (jail), trying on ned kelly's armour...

oh, gunky.

interestingly, this image was posted under the title 'existentialism'. who knew dust was so deep?

* cred: :: Lolitas ::

zooey. *sigh* .

an old friend from high school messaged me out of the blue (good ol' fb) to inform me that he had been meaning to tell me i looked like zooey deschanel (i wish!!!). anyway, sweetest compliment i could ever receive since she is pretty much my favourite. i mean the girl is adorable, a good actor, has an amazingly sweet voice, great style and got to be in love with schwartzman.

hives.

i had to stay home from work today because my left eye is swollen shut and i have hives all over my face. after a process of elimination to find the culprit, T and I narrowed it down to the flowers he brought home for me on Valentine's Day. love hurts. and itches.

mmm whatchou say.

zack braff knows his shit. imogen heap is a-mayo-naising. this song is a killer shot to the heart. i found a bunch of these imogen vids in the 'related video' section on youtube.com when i watched the clip i just posted below. 'related'? how? no idea.



also, there are about a million choir versions of this song kickin' around. why didn't q.e. have a choir? our students were too busy beating up kids from other high schools? possibly.

ha.

along with being a dj, i can also be a nanny because i really enjoy fran dreshcer.

at work, usually to stay awake but mostly because i can't help myself, i write down quotes, random thoughts, things to do, notes to self, etc. on post-it notes. it is very cathartic for me, and some days my multi-tasking (aka doing things other than the task i am being paid to do) nets me a few decent song lyrics. as i was cleaning up my desk at the end of the day today, i found a post-it note on which i had written something particularly random. 'SUPERMARKET SWEEP'. i actually have no recollection of the thought process that lead to me writing down the name of this particular gameshow in caps, however, i do recall that i friggin' loved this show.

new band name.

bought this t-shirt in thailand.

sprout and the bean.

the first time someone played joanna newsome for me i cringed. many of you will do the same. but i started listening to her album The Milk-Eyed Mender from start to finish a bunch and she grows on you. a lot. strange and beautiful.

:: sprout and the bean ::



:: peach, plum, pear :: (very 'bat for lashes')

ceramic heaven.

there it was, on the side of the road. after hours of driving, shopping through crowded markets, sweating and not finding a single thing i wanted to purchase, i yelled 'stop the car!' and T slammed on the brakes. it was the place where ceramics went to die, and it was glorious. i loved the haphazard way they had grouped the items together and spent a half hour trolling the aisles despite the fact that there was pretty much the same bowl/cup/plate combo, repeated every few clusters.







in the end, i discovered my most treasured souvenir of all... the horse mug.

futuristic ride.

T's dad and I were debating whether this was in fact a make-shift bike with a few fake bmw signs slapped on it or an actual sweet futurama beemer scooter.

sawadee-kaaaaaaa

hey ya'll.

i've been avoiding the internet, my phone has been dead since i left north america because i only have a charger that fits into north american outlets and am too unorganised (lazy) to go purchase a converter-thing, and i didn't carry a wallet/purse/anything around with me for the duration of my trip to thailand (and if you know my tendencies, i NEED my purse). i feel so unencumbered! but alas, life starts up again, i've been at work the past two day and have been reminded of the usefulness of technological distractions in the fight against total boredom... fb at work anyone?

to describe my vacation: swedish people everywhere, thai people everwhere, and everyone was so so wonderful and lovely. got the worst flu of life at the exact same time as T and we swapped turns being sick in our bathroom for 24 hours straight, keeping up all the other house guests (soooo sorry guys...). i found a beautiful knock-off mulberry handbag and the mean man at the market in patong would not lower his price below 4,000 baht, so i didn't get it. nai yang beach was perfect and tourist free (relatively) and we ate at the same restaurant every night because T's parents knew the owner and the food was incredible. i had many pina coladas and attempted to tan, but learned once and for all that i am not meant to be very brown (although i did get SOME colour...). T took me on a drive around the island and i shot a series of photos on my digital, which i have entitled 'Phuket: a drive-by shooting'. a lot of relaxing, reading, spending time with T's besties and parents. our trip started the day that melbourne's heatwave began, and we read on the web about the horrific fires and the 47 degree weather that happened over the course of our two weeks away. the day we got home the weather had dropped to 20 degrees and i felt guilty on my way to work because i was silently cursing the 'cold wind'. the entire state was ravaged by the most devastating fires the country has ever seen, and the news stories about how people survived or perished are heartbreaking and unreal. the fires didn't quite reach the city area, but they were definitely not far off - one started up today in a suburb just a few km's away from our 'hood. anyway, it is pretty surreal for me, but bushfires happen just about ever summer here.

well, i guess on that not-so-happy note... i leave you with some photo documentation of my trip. love yous.

some highlights from 'Phuket: a drive-by shooting'...


















me... as tanned as i get.


me and T.


nai yang beach.


the pool outside our place. J and T playing 'the coin game'... for like two hours.



thai mcdonalds.