20(viii) - up in the air

saw this in the cinema today, which i actually rarely do. quite good, definitely an 'adult' movie in the same way that juno was a teenage movie. everyone glowed but the movie itself was not shiny. however it was also not that complex, now that i think about it i don't really need to see it again apart from the beautiful people. solid plot and characters though, more than you could say for most movies these days, but lacking that extra little quirk. maybe that's where george clooney is supposed to come in but i am not the target audience for him i'm guessing.

76 - eyewear

before i run off and have no internet for like 3 days again, i got new glasses, they are heston blumenthal-like, which is to say not only are they a similar shape but they are really cool, because that guy seriously has the coolest prescription eyewear i have ever seen. my glasses are 'titanflex', i mean come on. cool.

p.s. 61 - RACDS primary exams

postscript to this.
results came out a while ago but i didn't know what i was going to do with them, still don't really. in any case i did well so now i am contemplating my future direction, WHAT DO I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE??

19 - i forgot one

xv. best australian essays 2004, ed robert dessaix
far superior to the 2007 edition which was bogged down by reviews of books and reviews and/or rebuttals of those reviews. much more variety, some farce and comedy, almost i guess you could say like the best american non-required reading.

clearly i have given up on finding pictures for book covers or anything in particular, hopefully my prose is scintillating enough to maintain attention.

21(iii) joanna newsom

ack, i saw her last night at the opera house! so good! almost spine-chillingly so. i liked how the arrangements worked with a few instrumentalists, very nice. she has a new album coming out 'in a month of the year'. her voice, pretty damn pitch perfect. i was also impressed that she had some songs on which she played piano, quite well in fact, i did not know she played piano, but i guess you could say it actually is quite similar to the harp. so glad i went after missing her a couple years ago. SO GOOD.

19 - guess what more literature

xiii. catcher in the rye, j.d. salinger
i am counting this even though i have read it before because it is very different to how i remember. maybe i have learnt recently to enjoy reading for more than the plot.

xiv. a confederacy of dunces, john kennedy toole
hello, wtf, genius in the form of grotesque hilarity. everyone was so frustrating! everyone was a cartoon and yet they were perfectly real. i read this in 2 days but i probably won't read it again anytime soon, my poor nerves.
haha

21(ii) neko case

part of the sydney festival, we sat up in the high balconies but the sound was great, nice and loud. apparently too loud in the stalls section. she has a great voice, in a very open-throated kind of way. and there was a guy playing a pedal steel, that instrument is fascinating.

also as part of the sydney festival free night i saw the manganiyar seduction, AMAZING

27 - holiday in vanuatu

i went snorkelling and floated in saturatedly salty water and saw lots of tropical fish! i went kayaking in a lagoon, in a rainforest river, in the open sea! i went swimming every day which has not happened since i was less than 10 years old! it was hot! mostly it was a great break from work.

19 - HI I READ MORE BOOKS

x. the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, junot diaz - i think i need to read it again and also look up some spanish words, similar incorporation of but not as expert as hemingway. good though, i took it to vanuatu and also read everyone else's books, no one read mine because it looked hard. THAT HAS NEVER DETERRED ME

xi. love my rifle more than you, kayla williams - memoir/account of being in the US army and going to iraq. i feel like it is one of the better non-fiction memoir type books i have read in a long time, sufficiently detailed and about real things and not seen so much through rose-coloured glasses like many are. though i have read the night of the gun which was anything but that.

xii. tales of the otori 2, lian hearn - worldwide bestsellers what? being made into a movie? who reads this stuff? dribble. stereotyped characters. literally, they would say or do certain things which were clearly meant to mean more like 'oh hi, look at me i'm a haughty acristocratic woman being dismissive of others, go do shit for me!!'