hultsfred. july 8th-11th.

lou's gonna be there, along with 20 of our closest melbourne buddies... plus a bondi friend who now lives in berlin. fingers crossed we can go to this legendary party in the whale!




(the lyrics are so good.)

booked... hoo-ray!

four weeks will be spent here from late june through 'til late july:

retail therapy.

new scarf.
new boots.
tomorrow, i hit brunswick street. carved owl ring! :: douglas & hope ::

HDR photography

when i finish school, i really want to experiment with cameras. TS just sent me a link to this site about :: HDR :: and the pictures look like they have been photoshopped to high heaven. but apparently, no, it's just the beauty of a sweet camera, triple exposure and some skills. i need to get me some of those. skills that is. and a sweet camera.


* image of :: Casablanca in LA ::

world's scariest man?

or sort of endearing?... nah.

Louis Theroux.

I really like documentaries, and BBC's Louis Theroux produces some of the most entertaining pieces of work I have seen. He gets right into the lives of some sick sick people, weird people, 'interesting' people... and does it in a way that makes the subjects of his docos feel like they are able to be themselves in his presence. He is very unassuming, very sweet and plays naivety to a T. His series follows him while he hangs out with British men purchasing Thai brides, pickets American soldiers' funerals with the Westborough Baptist Church family, goes on safari in wildlife farm enclosures in South Africa with big fat white Americans hoping to shoot a zebra and chills with some Nazi families, talking to them about raising children... and that is only to mention a few of his classics!

you slanderous trolls.

is this for real? and what is that accent? texan or dutch? thank you TS, you sending me this link provides me with great comfort... you are a bigger youtube searching time-waster than i am.

little kids with pipes.

when he kicks in with the MJ, i immediately burst into tears. goosebumps.

:: shaheen ::

The Hallway.

this is so amazing. i mean, judge for yourself, but to me, this just resonates - it is very 'me right now', probably a lot of people right now. or maybe not just 'now', maybe it is 'us always'. confused? watch this. pretty amazing how some people can sum things up so concisely, represent it visually and just have this great impact on a complete stranger, who relates.


The Hallway from The Hallway on Vimeo.

* :: miranda july ::

who are these guys?

flight of the conchords except americanised, with swearing, explicit, crude lyrics and high profile celebrity music video appearances and collaborations? the first song sounds like inner city pressure. it makes me miss jemaine and bret.

spun rivals. new stuff.

:: everything i took for granted ::

way to go boys!

* photo via fb, tagged photos of clay and rich, by kate griffin :: here ::

lighten up, mom, it's magic.

k, last 80's toy/movie/cartoon post but holy - toys were so flippin' scary back in the day. i mean seriously, look at these things! they are the stuff nightmares are made of and yet i had like 20 of them.

the hugga bunch movie.

i have been helping some friends look up 80's cartoon characters, trying to come up with costumes for the party our irish friends are having in a couple weeks. so, one thing leads to another and i end up starting to watch the rainbow brite movie 'star stealer' (as one does... ahem.) suddenly, i sit up in my bed and gasp. i could search for my absolute favourite movie from when i was a kid on youtube!... i actually still look in blockbuster's kids section for this one and it is never there. one time, at some tiny little movie store on rebecca in oakville, next to that ufo dinner, i found a copy. this was back when i was in grade 11? anyway, i was so excited i forced my friend jay to sit through the whole thing with me, i'm pretty sure he luuuuuuved it.

if you have a spare hour or so (and i know some of you do), this is the best kids movie EVER... and uh wait, actually, as i am watching it now, it is extraordinarily creepy and it is pretty much freaking me out.








* kudos to 'cb82fan' who uploaded this in such high quality.

truly truly truly outrageous.

cartoon party - we can't help ourselves, have to go as my idol from when i was four...



costume will be some variation of this:



my back-up option is to dress like this guy... thundercats - hoooooooooooooooo!

dear T,

('til i get there, actually)
luuuuuuvv brennie.

* i totally copied, go see this girl's cute blog :: sara says awesome ::

i love blackforest HAM.

i've had some wine tonight. it's around 4am. where do thoughts come from? i just had a flashback to one of the best weekends i can remember - em, zman, carly and me in my volkswagen gulf, westbound to Illinois. and on repeat, cranked - sandwiches. simcoe. are you kidding me? these dudes are so talented it hurts my head just thinking about their greatness. just shut up and go listen:
:: sandwiches ::
this song became an anthem in my office for about 7 months in 2006.


*photo cred: benpobjoy.com

oh wait, here are other inebriated people enjoying simcoe as much as i do:

dear facebook.

i am slowly deleting you. with little bursts of will power, i have gone on erasing frenzies over the past two days and have managed to complete the following steps towards my ultimate goal of a facebook-free existence:

- went from 420 or something tagged photos to: 308 (still too many)
- went from 20 photo albums to: 0
- inbox/outbox, every message i had ever sent or received on there to: 0, emptied.
- went from 70 profile photos (holy shit!) to: 39
- went from a member of around 70 fan pages to: 0
- went from being in 50 or so groups to: 5 (one of them being the Beautiful Men's Appreciation Society, I couldn't bring myself to un-join that one)
- interests, likes, dislikes, fave books, fave movies, how are you, who are you dating: cleared all info except university and high school history and current city.
- wall posts?: no.
- view photos of Bren?: no.
- iLike?: not anymore.
- causes?: lost the causes.
- links, posts, 'boxes with stupid apps' from a few to: 0.
- deleting things and clearing personal data from facebook?: priceless. i mean, cathartic. and oddly unsettling at the same time.

the scariest part of it all, other than the fact that i listed the above as 'accomplishments', is that it is really hard to just sign off. 'but how will i network?' 'what if i burn a bridge?' - holy. it is not NORMAL to know what everyone you ever met is up to at all times! ok, so then the debate of what normalcy is ensues... but seriously, i followed the creators of facebook into this whole thing without thinking through the long-term effects of what dragging your entire history of acquaintances through your life with you will be. is there a reason we detach from people? a reason we only keep people in our lives for a certain amount of time, then move on, grow, evolve?

i was at work today and two 50-somethings women were having a discussion over red wine: "oh, you know, he isn't on facebook, so he'll never know." what?!?

oh, but hold on. i did meet up with long lost friends over the holidays that i never would have had it not been for fb. i do stay in touch, even via the exchange of little wall post to say 'i'm thinking of you' every couple months between old friends and some of my family is on there now too... and i DO have impromptu chats on that piece of garbage chat program that cuts out every three minutes and doesn't send messages and then all of a sudden it sends the same message like 30 times... and i really like looking at pictures of people - even the ones i have never met - because some people are really good photographers, or have really cool shoes...

woah. i think this whole exercise, re-reading my list, and reminding myself that i am not being forced to stay on this site... i think i just need to learn moderation. oh god, its not fb's fault... it's mine! * gasp *

i don't know. i had a huge rant about this on my drive home today to TS and i guess i have to blame it on a 14 hour day, 7 or so cappuccinos, delirium and too much time on the internet. facebooking. but wait, what about blogging? oooops. i guess i will just have to pick my tech battles for now.

and on that note - here's a song i like and a video that reminds me of a-ha with a title that accurately describes my state of mind as i try to shut my laptop and go to sleep...

luuuuuuuuuv. brennie. (xoxo, ha.)

gordie said i had to.

actually, he didn't really say i had to put this up, but he made a general request to anyone to repost. so i did. if you are in the appropriate 'hood, on the appropriate date, at the appropriate hour, go check some art out...
gb takes a :: mean photo. ::

oh, and:

dear. gordie.

you'rrreee welcome.

luuuuv. brennie.

me too lady.

:: found while fb-browsing through an album that my friend Heidi was tagged in...taken at Club Club in Sydney ::here ::

can somebody please, remove these, cutleries, from my knees.

best lyrics ever in the whole history of music in all of life. for serious.