Hello Friends! I just realised I haven't posted or logged in a much longer period of time than I thought. I hope you're all well! For once I'm not here to vent or complain. Lol.
That surface was far too white and clearly was going to attract the black cat. This is a known force of nature. Yin and yang. The world is balanced again
Haha. That's like my dog. I roll my yoga mat out and he jumps on it and rolls around. I push him off so he sits on me. I push him off, he gets excited "oh you wanna play do you".
We had a 7-hour power outage yesterday afternoon, along with 1500 other homes, all because someone a bit further down the street released a helium-filled metallic balloon which floated up to the power lines and blew them up. All credit to the fire service who arrived quickly to secure the scene, and also to the United Energy crews who turned up with three massive cherry-picker trucks to thread it all back together again.
In better news, Groundhog Day: The Musical was fantastic, highly recommended. It's surpassed Wicked as my favourite theatre musical of all time. The sets, the humour, the cast...just brilliant.
Happy hottest 100 day! Would anybody be down for a thread in c/rage where we can discuss the H100? It was one of my favourite things from over on Reddit. All of us who cleared our days just to listen to the hottest 100 would sit around and pretty much all day "yeah this song's fuckin shit ay" with the occasional old person hopping in to rant about how much better music was last century. Then once every 10 songs we'd all day "yeah I'm not a fan of [artist] but this song is actually alright"
Ok I probably didn't sell that very well - there's a reason I don't work in sales! But jokes aside, would anybody be keen for something like that? Wouldn't be as much fun because there's less people here, but I reckon with a few of us it'd be decent enough?
The last time I sat and listened to the Hottest 100 was 2008 (the year I moved to Melbourne). I am super out of touch with whatever is on the airwaves these days. Smartphones killed the radio star.
My exposure to Triple J these days is pretty much limited to the car ride to the weekly shopping trip, so not much, but I don’t think i’ve heard a single thing that didn’t have that stupid hollow auto tune voice effect. Can anyone actually sing anymore?
Mostly central Vietnam ie Hue, Da Nang and Hoi An. I'll spend a couple of days in Saigon, but won't stay there long because I can only handle crowded city vibes for so long.
They were crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside but fuck they were bland and too salty. Nothing like kfc. I'll stick with korean fried chicken because they do flavour and spicy. I do not recommend unless you play around with spices.
I forgot to put a picture of the mug. (First ever attempt at sketching with charcoal and very quick, be kind.)
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The lines are a lot heavier and more defined than they should be, it wasn’t shaded in very lightly, gradually and increasingly accurately as it should have been. (You can see I put the bottom of the rim way too low at first then couldn’t lighten it with smudging.)
This is due in part to me sharpening the nib into weird uneven craggy angles by taking too large slices/inconsistent angles during sharpening and having to kind of press down to mark. I’ll watch a sharpening tutorial and try again when I feel like it.
Constantly hitting my hand and the end of the pencil on the easel rest and having to work around it at a weird sideways angle when doing the bottom was also really awkward.
Melbcat has also decided that she doesn’t like a flavour I bought many tins of and is refusing to finish her medicated supper, even with treats or bonito flakes on top. She just picks the good stuff off and demands something nicer. 😢
And yesterday I randomly came up in a few large hives which are now swollen welts. Must be from handling laundry chemicals
Final assignment done - I now have the next month free from study 😁
I had to draw an annotated diagram of my house & land as part of the assignment, and I can definitely confirm that is really not something I have any natural talent towards. I was able to use the glass table from my bathroom with a light underneath as a lightbox to trace a printout from Google Earth, so it at least has the right proportions. And I got to use my coloured pencils to do some colouring in of the different areas. I'm not expecting a great mark on this assignment, but it should pass and that's all that really matters with this one.
Ok all the hotels have been booked. Of course you never know until you stay there, but I think I've chosen wisely, and economically whilst ensuring good value.
But I will say that my gosh Ho Chi Minh City has become very expensive, pushing 1st world pricing at times.
We've entered the last 10 of the hottest 100. A few more people have joined the rage thread, but if anybody wants to get in before it finishes, you're more than welcome.
Back after a long but productive day out. Through sheer serendipity I managed to get out to North Melbourne and get my hands on some Small Batch decaf beans, can't wait to try them!
This appears to be the first year where we've got some young neighbours round the back fully into the hottest 100. Good on them. The quality of their vocal renditions (with aluminium tray as percussive accompaniment) is heading very much in a downward direction inversely proportionate to their BAC. I hope they're having fun.
^(as long as they please don't continue past 10pm.)^
In the Hottest 100 discovered via Rage thread there's a singer called Maisie that I've only ever seen before on a viral tiktok that spread to youtube. The song on there is called Lost The Breakup. She sounds like Taylor Swift but there was something familiar about the voice. She's using the babyish indie girl voice. While more upbeat it reminds me of Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star. Fade Into You
And apparently Nicki Minaj covered Barbie Girl?
Yep. Trends are cyclical. While Gen Z seems to be rediscovering a lot of 90's and early 2000's fashion trends the same may be happening with the music.
Ps. Was Fade Into You ever in Buffy? It sounds like it would have been played in the Bronze but don't actually remember. Edit: Unbelievably it was not.
Rewatching an old show from 2004 and man oh man, the fashion, please never bring it back! Also so glad I was not a girl during that period because sooo much midriff, were your tummies cold all the time.
In saying all that I seem to remember my entire wardrobe consisting of baggy boardshorts, cargo shorts, and jorts (my favourites had a Bart Simpson patch on one of the back pockets).
I'll grab the torrent of it when it pops up, but the last few years I haven't found anything that's grabbed my attention. I am no longer the target audience.
Apparently an hour nap at like 4:30pm has meant I'm still awake at 5am. What is this bullshit, body? We've been alive long enough to have the hang of falling asleep by now, idiot.