Update

Dear everyone,
I'm learning Italian today, on a whim!
I figure, I have the relations, the accent (apparently I have a very nice accent) and the love of the food, AND the desire to travel there... so why not?

The Big Day Out was fantastic. PNAU and Arcade Fire were my favourite, and Bjork was quite amusing as well.

I am tired.

Fantastico! Mi piace l'italia: il sole, il mare, il vino... Andiamo Roma in aprile!

Holiday Soaps, the Pros and Cons

Dawson's Creek
Outline: is about teenagers in small town America somewhere near Boston, in which a creek is situated - this is presumably Dawson's. They all sleep with eachother throughout the course of the series and pretend to have intelligent angst ridden conversations with pop culture references to the Smiths. Sometimes it is witty, but very rarely. Mostly it's crying, sex and angst.
Pros:
V. funny when Dawson cries. A friend told me that they couldn't use most of the footage of him crying because it was usually so bad. Fast forward to these parts as it is the most rewarding experience of your life.
Also v. funny when Joey (katie holmes who made a pact with the devil and married him, later on in life) cries and runs at the same time.
If you like things predictable, this one is a good one for you. It's a lovely show, really. Not very stimulating, but when you're in a slumpy mood you'll love it.
Cons:
Well to be honest it's mostly rubbish, with only some value.

The O.C
Outline: Ah, my generation's Dawson's Creek. Features the same things as Dawson's creek (crying, sex, angst) but throws in affairs with your ex's mother, living in ginourmous houses that would make Oprah feel like a decadent slut, overdoses, abusive relationships involving guns, strippers (namely your AUNTIE) and a whole heap more. Imagine 5 or 6 rich children getting bored and doing whatever they wanted in designer clothes.
Pros:
Funny when Ryan thinks he can control the world, beats people up, and gives his angry look when he is driving.
Seth is also very attractive, although he is a comic book nerd which in my opinion is a minus 1. However, he doesn't talk about them that much which is a plus one. Although he does play Playstation a lot which is a minus 1.
Summer can be funny sometimes.
The plot is so fucked up that trying to look away is impossible: One is a mere marsupial caught in the headlights in the middle of a highway.
Cons:
It's so extremely decadent. I don't like the fact that I enjoy watching spoilt rich kids overdosing, having sex with eachother's mothers and going to Mexico in a shiny black jeep.
Going back to the marsupial analogy, the sad bit is, the marsupial is most likely to die... the danger in watching the O.C is that you'll get sucked in and suddenly think that driving a jeep is okay.

The Secret Life of Us
Yes, so how about something Australian?
Outline: flatmates in St. Kilda, really fucked up people who sleep around. Artsy people too; a writer, 2 actors, a waitress... um. And then a doctor, a lawyer, a journalist (or is she a politician? God I can't tell... she wears a suit and has something to do with politics).
Pros:
Good Australian soap. The only good one as far as I can tell. Well written, well acted. Not too decadent (although a good soap always is a little)
The great thing about Australian actors is they always seem to get naked. It's like a thing in Australian films, soaps etc. You must get naked at some point. Not like the bloody Americans who always find a way around it; wrapping up in a sheet etc. Maybe Australian producers/directors are perverts? Or should we believe them when they say it's about reality, realness, rawness. Portraying life. Either way, its good to see them have guts.
Plot line is good.
Cons:
Made in the 2000 (i.e. RIGHT after the 90s). Australian fashion in the 90s was much like.... Hippies in skimpy clothing. And what the fuck did they do to their hair?
As if anyone can afford to live in St. Kilda anymore. it's no longer a place for derelicts and hookers... it's for trendies, much like the way Brunswick St has gone in recent years.
And I'm getting sick of this glorifying Melbourne thing; yes its the most funzie place on earth but its just rubbing salt into the wound (spelling?).

I am going to watch the West Wing next week with Hannah Keal, so maybe I can restore my dignity and reputation by watching a high brow soap (heh, right).
Happy watching,
Lisa

It's about time

It's about time I posted and I haven't recently thanks to that infernal myspace I created.
I'm quite sick of all the wanting attention people invest in that thing.
This place is much nicer and cushy-er.

Miss Kate Moss. She has an ugly boyfriend who makes good music but looks like he has termites or something. She's beautiful and stylish, trashy but gets away with it. I suspect it's because she's English (wait. Is she English?) Whatever it may be, English people are awesome.

So having said that, everyone should go and see This is England, which is my new favourite movie. It's quite near perfect, film making wise. Beautiful.

School will be coming back on monday (i.e tomorrow) and I still have not formulated a good argument for my essays. My stomach feels like it's in a knot, something it shouldn't feel as it will prevent me from having a break through. Grr. I should be working on it right now but i think my body and mind are trying this new aversion thing regarding homework, where I just don't do it. I hate school right now.

I found this blog of an artist who writes really good zines:
www.chay-ya.blogspot.com

Love,
Lisa

my space makes me a bit sick. Hmm.

movie nights we have planned

Katie's: R MOVIES
1. Fight Club
2. Trainspotting
3. Can't remember
4. Can't remember
5. Can't remember (etc)
6. It's not R, but we must watch wayne's world (for funzies)

Mines: QUENTY NIGHT
1. Pulp Fiction?
2. Resevoir Dogs
3. Kill Bill vol.1
4. Kill Bill vol.2

Meredith's: 80s NIGHT
1. Sixteen Candles
2. Breakfast Club
3. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (i have a crush on cameron his friend.. don't tell anyone)
4. Pretty in Pink (we love molly ringwald don't we? hehe yeah...)

I think we're having a night at Eric's as well. Hmm.

That's all.

GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR TOMORROW! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!
(does anyone else find lady sovereign hilarious?)
(beasties yay)

ZOMBIES

i love bloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

Today I danced with a shadow...

No, I actually did. And if jon decides to keep the footage, then you should come and see it when Comfort is in season, some time in october. It would be cool.
Ingrid has moved into her new better super dooper house and we must have a noodle party.

Also must make list of books to read this holidays.
and movies.

something tells me i;m not going to have enough time. hmm. damn.

midsummer is too hard to get to, methinks. But i am seeing the government inspector which will be a HOOT, which reminds me, do you want me to book tickets for all of us to see MIME when it opens?

The HOLIDAYS!:
As far as I know, the plan is:
- Movie night thursday night
- Am I making t-shirts with Katie on wednesday??
- movie night friday night at cate's
- Saturday shall be spent painting on a large canvas for CYT's comfort
- Sunday shall be comfort, again. But MONDAY... what happens next? Are we having a tarantino movie night too? And a picnic. We need to have a bbq for Hugo. Yes, I know I'm a vegetarian, which means we can't really have one at my house -- last time our family tried to have a bbq it ended up with my mum setting fire to vegetables in the garden. I'm serious. It involved some petrol too. Yeah. So we can't really have it at our house because we'll be eating charcoal. But picnics and other events are good.

Also my parents said yes to Big Day Out.

I love you all,
Lisa