I just finished dubbing some video footage I shot on a trip to Sydney last year. I went up with the tranquilizers, who had a gig at the hopetoun. we drove up in the day. not me, I still can’t drive. I sat in the tarago, lookin out the window & talking with the boys. YAY. I love rock n roll and adventure. & I love road trips. and would nearly always go if given the opportunity. that’s how I ended up in Melbourne maybe 6 years ago. drew told me he was driving to Melbourne. we’d only been together for a few months, but hell. I got there and I stayed there. mostly cause I couldn’t drive away in the first year. then I came to like it, them more recently to love it. then I left.
I’m about to go on a train trip. I have foolish romantic notions about train travel. I am, however fully prepared for these to be shattered. my train travel in France and Spain is about as far removed from the sunlander as you could get. a day on a train only to get to goddamn mackay. BLAH. but I’m still a little hopeful. and there’s certainly nothing romantic about a bus. fuck that. I might resort to hitchhiking on the way back.
anyway shattering foolish romantic notions may well be a black rebel activity. I’ll let you know the prognosis. roadtrips sure are. daytrips too. adventure in general. so you’ll here all about it.
2/24/05
2/19/05
artillery
so i'm spending some quality time in the hills with my family. i have 6 nephews.
i have been admiring some of their homemade weaponry. here is a small selection.
rifles, pistols, daggers, throwing knives.... it may just look like a blackened stick to you but don't doubt it is a lovingly forged orc sword. very deadly... when we have a bbq it's not about food. it's about forging more swords. there is a large pile under the house in readiness for battle... sharpening more arrows.. (them thar hills are full of all sorts of baddies) testing them out in combat with the brothers. assessing the damage wrought. with loud and enthusiastic commentry on whose guts is spilling out and where his eye ended up. on going descriptions and re-enactments of the trail of blood and gore that leads to his final bloody resting place. unfortunately the fuckers never stay dead, do they, so it goes on. very entertaining in a slightly disturbing way. so much for innocence.
the collection also features many variations on the humble rubber-band gun. made with a little assistance from grandpa tony... we also have spud guns and crossbows and many more daggers... all of which are rather battle weary.
inspired by the terminator movies and lord of the rings. which by the way is now known of as 'lord of the bums'. one bum to rule them all. the fellowship of the bum... i won't go on but you can imagine.
this is me in my room here. i've just been shot by an arrow, though i'm told yr not supposed to be smiling... duh. you're also supposed to see the arrow boys. anyway. aunty dell is alright. they like that i'm called hell. they like my t-shirt.
they like making horror movies with me. we have a few in our collection now. 'a vampire story...TASTY BLOOD', evil alfred, SLOW DEATH, die valentine... I am not responsible for titles or content. i'm merely the innocent technical advisor and editor / slave. this is an old picture but you get the point.
PS...
oooo weee
clever bean put links in the sidebar. some people i visit for entertainment and a little fix of they're fine writingses. maybe you should too.
i have been admiring some of their homemade weaponry. here is a small selection.
rifles, pistols, daggers, throwing knives.... it may just look like a blackened stick to you but don't doubt it is a lovingly forged orc sword. very deadly... when we have a bbq it's not about food. it's about forging more swords. there is a large pile under the house in readiness for battle... sharpening more arrows.. (them thar hills are full of all sorts of baddies) testing them out in combat with the brothers. assessing the damage wrought. with loud and enthusiastic commentry on whose guts is spilling out and where his eye ended up. on going descriptions and re-enactments of the trail of blood and gore that leads to his final bloody resting place. unfortunately the fuckers never stay dead, do they, so it goes on. very entertaining in a slightly disturbing way. so much for innocence.
the collection also features many variations on the humble rubber-band gun. made with a little assistance from grandpa tony... we also have spud guns and crossbows and many more daggers... all of which are rather battle weary.
inspired by the terminator movies and lord of the rings. which by the way is now known of as 'lord of the bums'. one bum to rule them all. the fellowship of the bum... i won't go on but you can imagine.
this is me in my room here. i've just been shot by an arrow, though i'm told yr not supposed to be smiling... duh. you're also supposed to see the arrow boys. anyway. aunty dell is alright. they like that i'm called hell. they like my t-shirt.
they like making horror movies with me. we have a few in our collection now. 'a vampire story...TASTY BLOOD', evil alfred, SLOW DEATH, die valentine... I am not responsible for titles or content. i'm merely the innocent technical advisor and editor / slave. this is an old picture but you get the point.
PS...
oooo weee
clever bean put links in the sidebar. some people i visit for entertainment and a little fix of they're fine writingses. maybe you should too.
2/16/05
2/13/05
summertimeblues
sometimes i wonder what i'm gonna do...
maybe i'll go down the river... have a swim....
look out the window....
jump for joy...
make some delightfully ugly trousers...
sorry if this is getting too boring.
might just go to sleep instead.
maybe i'll go down the river... have a swim....
look out the window....
jump for joy...
make some delightfully ugly trousers...
sorry if this is getting too boring.
might just go to sleep instead.
2/11/05
marquee stage
new york city... *boom boom * look out here i come... a match made in heaven...
ladies & gentlemen...
introducing...
ladies & gentlemen...
introducing...
2/7/05
delle doolittle
i mowed the lawn and chopped up a little deadly black whip snake and a cane toad, ARRGHH, vomit. then i finished and a little honey eater flew onto my shoulder and just sat there for a coupla minutes and then i went for a swim down the river and saw a HUGE carpet python, no camera though... and then a dragonfly landed on my leg. hmmmmm.
2/2/05
job hunting
I have finally booked my ticket to leave the country. which has served to highlight my dire need for further funding initiatives for the next year or so.
Now, before you shake your heads, it’s not like I haven’t thought about this ‘til now. I have. But to REALLY do much about it is another thing. being a bit of a ‘fly by the seat of my pants girl’ I figure it’ll be alright. & surely it will. and if not, no doubt you’ll here about it here unless i hock my computer... NO!
I have a few money-making schemes in the works but in case they don’t come through I have been looking into my options.
work you say? ok.
first step, of course... consult the stars. I’m a ‘use what you like, discard the rest’ astrology fan.
I have recently come across what I think is a pretty accurate reading. this one is pretty in-depth. pages and pages of it. I relate to most of it. even the ugly stuff. all for a capricorn, fire snake.
For suitable careers, they suggested…
entrepreneur, president, heiress, movie star, top model, advertising director, religious leader, oil magnate, choreographer, film director.
a bit much I know... oil magnate would have to be an accident. & top model can be struck off strait away. even if they wanted to go very left of centre, I don’t have the measurements for those designer samples, (cept of course miss andrea’s works, which fit marvelously) movie star I could maybe stretch to if I didn’t have to learn too many lines. I’d just have to direct as well... oh, & my family ain’t money, so I’ll need someone else’s fortune to inherit… anybody???
so this is my general ‘all of the above’ application. anybody got or know of any vacancies? can you pass on my number. I have a bit of time. & I’m flexible. no ties. I can travel. (but would prefer to be based in north qld for another month) & I’m great to work with, though ‘an arrogance and aplomb that would frighten godzilla’ may not seem to suggest that, I’m sure we’ll get along.
no really, I’m lovely. & great... WELL obviously... did you read that list…
soon I’ll stop pretending to be searching for a job, and get busy with the world domination.
Now, before you shake your heads, it’s not like I haven’t thought about this ‘til now. I have. But to REALLY do much about it is another thing. being a bit of a ‘fly by the seat of my pants girl’ I figure it’ll be alright. & surely it will. and if not, no doubt you’ll here about it here unless i hock my computer... NO!
I have a few money-making schemes in the works but in case they don’t come through I have been looking into my options.
work you say? ok.
first step, of course... consult the stars. I’m a ‘use what you like, discard the rest’ astrology fan.
I have recently come across what I think is a pretty accurate reading. this one is pretty in-depth. pages and pages of it. I relate to most of it. even the ugly stuff. all for a capricorn, fire snake.
For suitable careers, they suggested…
entrepreneur, president, heiress, movie star, top model, advertising director, religious leader, oil magnate, choreographer, film director.
a bit much I know... oil magnate would have to be an accident. & top model can be struck off strait away. even if they wanted to go very left of centre, I don’t have the measurements for those designer samples, (cept of course miss andrea’s works, which fit marvelously) movie star I could maybe stretch to if I didn’t have to learn too many lines. I’d just have to direct as well... oh, & my family ain’t money, so I’ll need someone else’s fortune to inherit… anybody???
so this is my general ‘all of the above’ application. anybody got or know of any vacancies? can you pass on my number. I have a bit of time. & I’m flexible. no ties. I can travel. (but would prefer to be based in north qld for another month) & I’m great to work with, though ‘an arrogance and aplomb that would frighten godzilla’ may not seem to suggest that, I’m sure we’ll get along.
no really, I’m lovely. & great... WELL obviously... did you read that list…
soon I’ll stop pretending to be searching for a job, and get busy with the world domination.
2/1/05
blackout
we had an all-night blackout the other night. and i had slept all day cause i was a little crook, so i couldn't go to bed early. what do you do in the middle of nowhere with no lights, no music, no tele. and nobody to talk to. my phone rang three times and i couldn't freakin find it. it was very dark and stormy. lightning. thunder. i drank beer on the verandah. i found 1 candle. all the beetles came to it. moths too. have i told you how many million insects there are here? million millions. how big some of them are. how much they bite.
so i lit two fires. and looked at them. and burnt all the wood i chopped. and took this picture... that's it. pretty spider huh...
so i lit two fires. and looked at them. and burnt all the wood i chopped. and took this picture... that's it. pretty spider huh...
i held a baby curlew
at my friend kyra and damo's place. he was soft. it's great there. paradise.
i also drank fourex on the verandah overlooking their veiw of the millstream river valley.
this is the road to my parents place.
this is me and my sister phoebe.
this is what she did while i did... something else that i can't really recall... four boys...
this is the littlest. valentine. and a very large toe-biter. they really bite.
he's a very serious little man.
i also drank fourex on the verandah overlooking their veiw of the millstream river valley.
this is the road to my parents place.
this is me and my sister phoebe.
this is what she did while i did... something else that i can't really recall... four boys...
this is the littlest. valentine. and a very large toe-biter. they really bite.
he's a very serious little man.
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