Tired Tuesday, Oct 20 2009

Just to provide closure to the whole Vampire Weekend saga; the whole story is too long and uninteresting for me to be bothered typing it all out to an invisible audience so I’ll just sum it up by saying that their PR team or whoever is booking their gigs have no idea how to do their job and that fan clubs should not be allowed for any musical single-sex group that do not sing, dance, wear co-ordinated costumes and appeal to a core fan base of twelve year old girls, or Asians. That is all.

Also I have an assignment due in three days I haven’t started, or properly researched. Nor do I have any idea on how I will approach said assignment. Like usual, it will probably come to me while I sit on the toilet sometime in the future. This is neither surprising, nor particularly new.

Also in recent times my last.fm has been reading as if I’ve been taking music recommendations from Stuff White People Like. On one hand I am secretly pleased that I have somehow managed to build up “indie cred” or something like that, no matter how tenuous (read; bullshit) such a term might be. On the other hand, I have spent an awful lot of money building up the 1/4 of my CD collection that is made up of trashy pop music (both English and otherwise) and I don’t really want it to go to waste. I feel conflicted.

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Tickets, part 3 Monday, Oct 12 2009

I woke up early and everything this morning just so I could get to uni before 9am so I could use their uncapped Internet and make sure I’d get Vampire Weekend tickets. Bloody hell, I even tried to sleep at 10pm last night just so I wouldn’t be sleep-deprived for today, which backfired because my body decided to rebel and did not let me sleep at all, consequently leaving me operating right now on little more than coffee and scrambled eggs.

I sat here, waited for the clock to count down to 9am, then refreshed my browser like my life depended on it.

It didn’t let me in. I looked a bit closer and noticed the sale date was the 19th. Not today. Monday the 19th.

So what the hell did I just go through all that for? FML, seriously. And I’ll have to do it all again in a week.

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RETURN Wednesday, Oct 7 2009

So children, now we know the number one killer of a blog; attempting to have a structured entry template and schedule. Admittedly it went on for a fair while, I think a little under a month was a pretty good run considering I was posting everyday, but there’s only so much of your mundane life you can detail in mobile photos and short paragraphs when you decide “screw it, Facebook is easier and allows for instant gratification in the form of user comments”. Probably no one will even remember this blog still exists and thus no one will read, but you know what? I’m bored and I’m procrastinating, so let’s just roll with it; even if it means repeating all the apparently funny anecdotes and jokes I make throughout the day except in digital form.

No. 1 thing I need definitely right now is a job. I don’t even know how everyone else is able to find them so easily; do I really need to walk through Liverpool Westfield and throw my resume at prospective employers before I find one? I thought for sure the new Mexican place there would give me one since they’re virtually devoid of both customers and employees but a week later and I still don’t have a call. Maybe my very valuable experience in the school canteen just wasn’t enough for them.

If I don’t get a job soon though I fear two things; first, that I’ll end up graduating with no prior knowledge of how the formal workplace operates and eventually end up jaded and bitter and hating everyone else I work with, and secondly, and more importantly, that I’ll end up in Japan come a year and half with naught more than a few hundred dollars to my name, living off curry sauce and rice and begging for money like the boarder kids did in high school.

And of course, just to prove how responsible I’m being with my money, I went out and bought tickets to go see Kate Miller Heidke next month (-$50). Dammit Neighbours for making her music commercially successful as well as flat out awesome, her tickets close to doubled in price because of you. I’m also looking at going to see Vampire Weekend the day after. This is very exciting.

This blog is not important enough for me to think up of a proper conclusion so I’m just going to end it here.

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