School finished 5 years ago?! Damn, I feel old.
In other news, I saw Texas Chainsaw Massacre on the weekend and HOLY. FRICKING. SHIZNIT. Scary shit. Oh, and Jessica Biel has a nice rack.
Ear Candy: "Mr. Jones" -- Counting Crows
(Their best of CD, Films About Ghosts, gets released here in a week! Weeeee!! So excited. Counting Crows = Riss' favourite band EVA. Why can't they bring out a DVD?)
All I Want for Christmas
Dear Santa,
I know it’s a little early, but I figured that I’d get this to you now before you get inundated with more requests.
I think I have been pretty good this year. Ok, so maybe there were a few sort of not-so-great incidents, but all the same- I've been reasonably well behaved and I think after this past year I deserve something, don't I? (You don't have to answer that...) Anyhow, I would greatly appreciate your donation of any of the following items, which will be, of course, quite treasured.
- A new TV, VCR & DVD player. Alright, I know that in our household of 3 people we own 4 TVs, 3 DVD players and 2 VCRs, but the television I currently have in my room is starting to play up, you don’t want it exploding and injuring me now do you?
- A DVD burner. Not that I would ever take part in video pirating *cough*, but since my CD burner is broken, upgrading to a DVD/CD burner seems like the most logical option.
- Bridge Climb Voucher. I’ve always wanted to do this but just haven’t gotten around to it. Seeing the sunset on top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge would kick so much ass.
- Clothes. A couple of dresses and skirts for summer would be nice. And a cossie, preferably not one of those triangle ones since I have no boobs to fill it out. Oh, and a couple of pairs of boardshorts and perhaps a couple of singlet tops…But anyway, please, please, don't get me any more Sportsgirl gift vouchers. Because I'm not completely in love with Sportsgirl. Not as much as much as my family seems to believe, at least. (But then again, a Sportsgirl gift voucher is preferable to say a "nice" fuchsia cardigan with those "nice" puffy shoulder pads and "nice" decorative little beading all over it. I might not include those quotation marks around the nice's in my thank-you note, but I'll be thinking them all the same.)
- CD's & DVD’s. I'll get back to you on which ones. Or you could just get me the aforementioned DVD/CD burner and we'll call it a deal.
- Tickets to see the Australian Ballet 2004 season. They’re doing some amazing ballets next year, including the classic, Swan Lake. Mr. B – A tribute to George Balanchine is also one of the ballets on the AB’s schedule that I’d like to see as it showcases a triple bill of one of the greatest and most prolific choreographers in ballet history.
- A nice pair of sunglasses. I have a bad habit of breaking sunglasses - pretty much every pair I own has at some point suffered a tragic, cracked, twisted or otherwise mutilated fate (except this one, rather hideous pair I bought as an emergency pair one particularly sunny afternoon while at the markets – why, why is it always the ugly ones that stay with you?).
- A pair of funky sneakers. Because I want to be cool like everyone else, heh. I have the perfect pair all picked out. I just don't have much money to spare. Actually, on second hand:
- Scratch all of that, just give me cash. Lots and lots of cash. I will handle the details.
And just so you know, I am as big on giving as I am on receiving. This year, I have big plans for gift giving in mind. Lots and lots of cards with candy canes taped on. I know, it's a little extravagant, but c'mon, nothing's too good for my friends.
Thank you for your time Santa.
Much love,
Larissa xxoo
Ear Candy: "You Give Me Chills" -- Ben Lee
Kiss Kiss
Whenever I see lipstick ads where the woman blows a kiss or pouts to the camera, I always get reminded of the "Wall of Kisses" at the Opera House.
Before performers went on stage in the Concert Hall of the Sydney Opera House, they would kiss the wall side stage for good luck. This wall was literally covered in lipstick kisses, the majority of which were in fire engine red. My dancing friends and I used to kiss the wall every time we performed or competed there, it probably has 20 or so from me on it. It was a fun way to calm nerves (actually nervous doesn't even begin to describe how you feel when you're about to dance on the Concert Hall Stage of the Sydney Opera House, I'm-totally-terrified-and-about-to-wet-my-pants-because-I'm-so-fricking-nervous is a more apt description), and it was also a way to make sure you didn’t have any excess lipstick, heh.
I wonder if the wall is still there. Probably not considering how skanky 20+ year old lipstick would get.
Ear Candy: "Ghost" -- Howie Day
(I can't wait til his new CD that I ordered finally arrives. He's touring with Matt Nathanson at the moment. Two very cute and talented boys with guitars, I wish they'd tour down here!)
Layers
Sometimes it feels good to give people an insight into who you really are.
And it is funny because this one guy was like, "I never would have thought any of that about you..."
I like proving people wrong or different. The one thing I despise most is people having this belief or image of who I am without them knowing me at all.
Ear Candy: "Save Me" -- Graham Colton
(These guys are a cross between the Gin Blossoms and Matchbox Twenty. They're currently touring with Counting Crows and Jason Mraz. They're definitely a band worth checking out!)
Open mouth. Insert foot.
I was raised in a pretty Catholic household. I say "pretty" Catholic, and not "zealously" only because I have met others much, much farther down the spectrum. But my entire family is just about as far to the religious side of the spectrum as you can get if you were looking within the general population.
Mass has never been optional, the only times when I haven’t gone were when I have been really sick or when my parents have been overseas and I just pretended that I went when I really didn’t. I went to a Catholic school until year 10, after which I convinced my parents that my decision to go to a selective public school for years 11 and 12 wouldn’t corrupt me (right…). My mum makes fish every Friday during Lent and we observe all the Holy Days of Obligation. I am pretty good at Catholic trivia (which is probably a pretty appropriate thing to call it- a lot of it is just random knowledge that would only ever really be on use perhaps on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.)
So in this rather religious climate, one isn't really encouraged to say "You know, I think this whole weekly mass attendance is little overrated..." which is basically what I did.
And the aftermath from that wasn’t pretty.
It’s not like I don’t enjoy going to mass, I do. I hold my faith very close to my heart. But in the heat of an argument with my dad I knew it would be the one thing to attack that would make him crack the shits even more.
I feel so incredibly guilty now. I hate fighting with my dad, I hate feeling like I've disappointed him.
Ear Candy: "Me Against the Music" -- Britney
(Is it wrong that I'm loving this song?! Man, I can't believe I'm publicly admitting to listening to this)
Bleh
My emotions seem to fluctuate with the weather. Without a reason I have been undoubtedly downcast lately. Even though it feels like I have everything I could possibly want, there are times where I feel alone and isolated. How can one be surrounded by people and yet, at the same time, feel as though they were the only person in the world?
I can’t quite work out what is making me feel this way, why I feel like I’m stuck in a rut. The gloss and excitement of things have faded, and the monotony of just about everything is starting to get to me. I feel bored. I need to get away. I need to do something different. I need…I don’t know what I need, but I hope I figure it out soon because I don’t like feeling like this.
Ear Candy: "Something's Missing" -- John Mayer
Spit or swallow?
I'm sure males around the world would be pleased with the research findings from this study.
