May madness: Mixtape # 3

It's a new month and a new month called for a new mixtape. I've been quite slack with my posts because of school and quite frankly, my own laziness... So hopefully this mix makes up for it. In the month where many people are getting sick and stressed, here's some music to shed some light on it all.

Songs that make me want to dance and sing:

1. Darwin Deez - Radar Detector

2. Jonsi - Animal Arithmetic

3. Kate Nash - Doo-Wah-Doo

4. Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension

5. Sarah Blasko - Hold On My Heart (Presets Remix)

6. Yeasayer - O.N.E

7. Foals - Miami

8. Ou Est Le Swimming Pool - Dance The Way I Feel

9. Jupiter One - Countdown

10. Tim & Jean - Come Around

Deeply Saddened.

By the Splendour In The Grass lineup.

Don't get me wrong, it's an amazing lineup including:

The Strokes * Pixies  * Ben Harper & Relentless7 * The Temper Trap * Mumford & Sons * Florence and The Machine * Scissor Sisters * Empire of The Sun * The Ting Tings * Band of Horses * Goldfrapp * Wolfmother * Richard Ashcroft & The United Nations of Sound * Grizzly Bear * LCD Soundsystem * Angus & Julia Stone * Hot Chip * Passion Pit * Midnight Juggernauts * Jónsi (of Sigur Ros) * Paul Kelly * Kate Nash * Laura Marling * Fat Freddy’s Drop * Lisa Mitchell * Midlake * The Vines * Black Rebel Motorcycle Club * Broken Social Scene * Tame Impala * The Magic Numbers * K-OS * Operator Please * Bluejuice * Little Red * Ash * The Middle East * Whitley * Yeasayer * Miami Horror * Delphic * We Are Scientists * Foals * Alberta Cross * Surfer Blood * Space Invadas * British India * Miike Snow * Washington * Philadelphia Grand Jury * Clare Bowditch * Band of Skulls * Two Door Cinema Club * The Drums * The Mess Hall * Violent Soho * School of Seven Bells * Last Dinosaurs * John Steel Singers * Yacht Club DJs * Jonathan Boulet * Dan Sultan * Oh Mercy * Cloud Control * Fanfarlo * Boy & Bear * Ernest Ellis * Tijuana Cartel * Frightened Rabbit * The Joy Formidable * Skipping Girl Vinegar * Gypsy and The Cat * Horrorshow * Money For Rope * Tim & Jean

The thing is: 

a. I have school and can't miss it due to year 12. 

b. On top of the $450 for a ticket i'd have to also buy a ticket for the airfare. 

c. I now feel like sobbing uncontrollably 

Thanks Queensland for creating the perfect lineup that I cannot attend.

Pick Me up: Mixtape #2

In my endless circle and struggle against procrastination, I decided to make yet another playlist.

This is a playlist that lifts my mood and as the title suggests, is meant to be a pick me up.

Here's the music that makes me feel better:

1. The Holloways - Generator

2. Larrikin Love - Happy As Annie

3. All the Damn Kids - Indie Is A Dirty Word

4. Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead

5. The Wombats - Kill The Director

6. The Maccabees - About Your Dress

7. Bombay Bicycle Club - The Hill

8. Babyshambles - Fuck Forever

9. The Libertines - I Get Along

10. The Strokes - Last Nite

Tidbits.

-My favourite type of art is surrealism. I quite like Vladimir Kush, Rene Magritte and Salvador Dali.

-My favourite movie is Fight Club but the two movies I can never get sick of are: The Princess Bride & Ever After...obviously I'm a hopeless romantic on the inside...

-I enjoy fantasy battle scenes in movies.

-My favourite animal is the duck.

-I love vintage cars, especially my 1960's orange beetle.

You see, my problem is...

I live far too much in the future and don't live enough in the present.

That really has to change.

Currently.

Things that make me happy:

-Music

-Friends

-Family

-Friendly Fires

-Dresses

-Parties

-Milk

-Bowler hats

-Gigs

-The thought of next year

-Markets

-Brogues

-Colder weather

-Chocolate

-Alcohol

-Mess

-My sister's dog

-Blue Eyes

-My cello

-Dancing

-Weekends

-Blogging

-Writing songs

-Necklaces

-Mixtapes

....this list is far too small...

Things that make me unhappy:

-Procrastinating

-Wasting my time

-Anxiety

-My glasses/contacts

-My broken camera

-Lateness

-Laziness

-Being lonely

-Feeling tired

-The thought of this year

-My impatience

...this list is far too big...

Nostalgia.

This is a photo of me, taken almost a year ago.

It's funny how relationships between people can become so different.

It makes me a little sad to think about how things once were.

But...

It's no use dwelling on the past and thinking of things we cannot change.

Growing Up.

My best friends' 18th parties: 

a. rites of passage.

b. celebration.

c. accepting 'adulthood,' whilst being the most childish we've been in years.

This Time Last Year.

I was at school when I took this photo of my friend Jade.

We were so different back then and this was a month before everything changed dramatically.

The month after this started the chain of events that made up my 2009, for better and for worse.

When I think that in 7 months I'll never have to wear this uniform again, I realise that the past six years have flown by so quickly and I honestly have no idea where all this time went.

April Fool: Mixtape #1

It's autumn, the weather is getting cooler. I love it.

I can finally wear my tights, cardigans, scarves and beanies again.

This is my first mixtape, the first of many to come...

Songs I can't stop playing right now:

1. Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks

2. Animal Collective - My Girls

3. Friendly Fires - Kiss Of Life

4. Two Door Cinema Club - Undercover Martyn

5. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home

6. Jonathan Boulet - A Community Service Announcement 

7. Fanfarlo - Luna

8. Tegan & Sara - Alligator

9. Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

10. Miike Snow - Cult Logic 

I wasn't quite sure how I would start this...

This blog; an internet journal of sorts; a place for my innermost thoughts.

And then I thought, why don't I write something about myself? 

Starting with the boring facts that people would find out when they first meet me:

I am 17 years and 4 months old. 

I was born in and live in Australia but my parents are from the Philippines. 

I am undertaking my last year of high school and I am thinking of studying event management next year at TAFE or University.

I've had a job at a hardware store for a year and a half and I still know absolutely nothing about hardware.

I can play the guitar, bass, drums and I'm having cello lessons at the moment.

etc etc etc.

And as this blog evolves, I'll peel back through the layers and dig deeper to uncover honest truths about myself, my interests and the world around me. 

This can be my discovery, my journey through words.