Hi!

The past month of uni holidays have been really lovely for me. A few words to describe them:

Melbourne, Splendour in the Grass, Eels, Camping, Hiking, New People, Birthdays (inc. mine!)

Individual updates are coming...

I'm sure you all got the email....but,

SATURDAY JULY 22ND

Sonic Youth, Grinspoon, DJ Shadow, The Grates, Death Cab for Cutie, TV on the Radio, Augie March, The Avalanches (DJ set), Youth Group, Brittle Fex, Atmosphere and Paul Mac.

SUNDAY JULY 23RD

Brian Wilson, Wolfmother, Scissor Sisters, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jose Gonzalez, Snow Patrol, You Am I, ( Read more... )

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I love music, and for the past year or so I hadn't liked much of the new music that had been hitting my ears. This could be my fault for not going out and finding it, or just a lack of good stuff being released (argh, so much retro yelling, loud music). This has reversed for me now with a few albums that i've stumbled upon in the first few months ( Read more... )

One of the greatest soccer matches i've seen!  In front of 82 000 people the Aussies took revenge on Uruguay who knocked them out at the same, final stage of qualifying four years ago.

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I don't really understand how people are able to keep collectables in cases, or in their original wrap. I don't think I could live with having a shiny thing just sitting on the mantlepiece, unable to touch or use it for it's normal purpose. A Smashing Pumpkins vinyl of Pisces Iscariot just arrived with the mailman and my god is it beautiful. The ( Read more... )

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It makes me sad that my family is the only of the Bui clan in Australia. I met my grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins for the first & last time, in a period of 2 weeks in 1998. Since then, two of my three grandparents I met have passed on. I was only 13 then and I was a bit of a 13 year old and didn't really appreciate what it was like to ( Read more... )

After 7 years and 3 critically and commercially successful albums Five Star Laundry (2000), Shoot This (2002) and Animal (2005), Motor Ace have decided to call it a day ( Read more... )

I find this impressive and scary at the same time -

http://www.schwillz.com/ccdebt/index.html

In other news, I watched Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children and it is so fantastically amazing. However, it definitely is only for fans, people who haven't played it just won't