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For those of you who haven't gotten an SMS this is just to let you know that THE BIG BREAKFAST IN IS ON!
So if you're going to the Big Day Out (or even if you're not) come down to my place between 9am and 11am and fill your self up with food, sunscreen, tunes, and good times! Breakfast is the most important meal of the day (and food is damn expensive at so stock up early) so this is the most important part of your Big Day Out. Don't know where I live, then message me on 0403 414 822.
There will also lots of Berocca for those of you having a Big Night Out at either Diplo or Busy P (+friends). So yes come on down! Enjoy!
Speaking of Diplo, if you're not doing anything on Saturday night then... well... you should be doing something and that something is dancing your ass off to Diplo at The Bakery! For you added entertainment you will also find me dancing like a spastic at Diplo (they guys from Datarock came up and personally told me how awesome my moves were last time I busted out to Diplo, who knows what I'll bring this time). It's not to be missed!Current Mood:  tired Current Music: Hot Chip - shake it over and over (Diplo mix) |
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Yay! Now I no longer have to take a break playing Wii to check Linejournal! Thank you Wii Browser!
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I have two spare tickets to Noel Gallagher (you know the dude from Oasis) tomorrow night (that's the 16th) so if you anyone out there missed out on tickets and wants to go let me know by messaging me on my mobile (0403 414 822). They're not the greatest seats (they're in the Upper Gallery, seats W5&W6) but they're better than nothing. While it would be nice to get the money back for them ($69.90) it's not that big an issue since it would just be really crap to see them go to waste. This is the guy who wrote Champagne Supernova!!! (a contender for Sam's GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIMES!!! AWARD™ You know you want it!!!
So in short, if you want to see Noel Gallagher tomorrow night at the Perth Concert Hall message me (0403 414 822) and I will hook you up!!!
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So on Sunday I'm going to be doing shooting one Artrage's 24 Hour Films and I need locations at which I can shoot this thing. However, I have no idea what locations I will need for the shoot until 7am Sunday morning!
So I thought it would be a good idea to make a nice little location database and that's where I need your help! If you have a location that you would be willing to let some very rushed filmmakers take over please let me know. Even better, e-mail me (use my gmail: sam.winzar(at)gmail.com) some pictures and the address so I can show the rest of my group what it looks like. Houses are great, but it would also be really awesome if anyone could get us permission to film at a restaurant/cafe, office, alleyway, park or some other location that pops up frequently in scripts.
Of course anyone who helps out will receive a huge IOU and anything else I can dig up to show my appreciation.
Thanks in advance!Current Mood:  contemplative Current Music: LCD Soundsystem - 45:33: Nike+ Original Run |
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So yeah, for those who don't know... I'M BACK!
I'll try and do write up of my trip sometime but the thought of doing so is a bit daunting. Needless to say, I had an awesome time! It's also awesome to see you guys again. It was great catching up with people at The Rosemount on Wednesday. Sorry I didn't make it out over the weekend but I'm still trying to get sleeping patterns sorted out. I over compensated a bit and went from staying up until 5am to falling asleep at 5pm. I seem to have got myself back into gear now so people want to catch up just let me know when you're free. I'm pretty much free all the time at the moment having absolutely zero commitments at the moment.
Oh and go check out ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) slushpup's Livejournal/Flickr for some of our Pukkelop (Pukkel is Dutch for Pimple) adventures! What grand adventures they were too!Current Mood:  blah Current Music: Squarepusher - Theme from Sprite - Hello Everything |
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Hello from Duck, North Carolina!
I'm hanging out here at this nice beach house crashing the family reunion of some friends of mine from when I lived in Indonesia. I bowed out on todays second trip to the beach due to not wanting to to burn my feet. In my minimal packing I didn't pack any sandals. After all, I'm an Aussie, we can brave a short walk on a hot surface! Well first off, I've never been that great at handling things shoeless and the walk to the beach is about five minutes or so. I was able to handle it but I feel like I need to give my feet a day to recover before putting them through it again. Of course next time someone's heading to Wal*Mart I think I'll have to join them and pick up a cheap pair.
The other thing I've been really enjoying is some competitive foosball games. I love foosball, it's my favourite pub game. I even have my own foosball table. However, it doesn't get much use because the second thing people say after noticing that I own one is that they're going to play me because I must be so awesome at it (the first thing most people say is "cool, a foosball table"). Now I consider myself to be a decent player but I'm not some crazy foosball master because I never have anyone to play with. When we went up to Connecticut for the film shoot there was a foosball table at the house. It was great fun except that no one else there had really played much foosball. It took a lot of trying to teach people good foosball sense for the games to get interesting but there still wasn't any challenge. But now, I've got a total of about five players around the same skill range which is making for some games. I shouldn't get so excited about foosball.
Of course getting excited about foosball is better than getting pissed off at airlines. It seems that group of travelers had some sort of problem with their airline. I got here a full 24 hours late! Might flight out of Midland got continually delayed and didn't end up flying out until 3 hours and 15 minutes past it's scheduled departure time. After the first hour of delay it had completely screwed up my connecting flights. I ended up rescheduling my connections three times with the last one forcing me to stay another night in Midland (which was better then being stranded in some city where I have no one to stay with). It actually turned out to be really good since I got to spend another day with my friends there and I was arriving earlier than my friends over here. The other travelers here were struck with delays as well a lot of missing luggage. Beware of Norfolk airport! I think it may be cursed.
Speaking of Midland I had a great time there, there wasn't much to do but I didn't really want to do much. I did almost get arrested since it seems blowing shit up is a way the local kids entertain themselves. While firecrackers and stuff are legal to buy there, they're not legal to use when there's a high fire risk due to lack of rain going on. I'm also unsure of how legal it is to tape a bunch of them together to make a decent explosion. I was just a spectator in this, but it's a good thing the cop was my friends neighbour because the last thing I need when traveling is a charge relating to explosives. On my extra day in Midland it did finally get some rain. And by some I mean flash flood which managed to bring my friends' 4WD to it's knees.
The other thing that was really interesting to get the stark contrast of big town New York and small town Midland (if people want me to blabber more about New York on here just ask in the comments because I could blabber of forever but I really don't feel like typing it all out). Still for a small town it's done some big things. It's where the use of downward force on race car aerodynamics was first utilised. You know all those wings on your sports cars? Well you have Midland to thank for that. Also, last years winner of the Tribeca Film Festival Best Short Film Award lives in Midland and I got to meet him and talk to him about the production business he runs there. Oh and that guy who's running America came from there too.
Well, I think that's enough of an update for now! Hope you're all doing well!
Aug. 1st, 2006 @ 05:57 am
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Well here I am in Midland, Texas. New York went out with a bang. Went down to Coney Island for the (FREE!) Siren Music Festival and then went down to Gay Street to attend a rooftop party for the crew of a student film I worked on the weekend before (up in Connecticut). In case I didn't warn people after my trip home from Melbourne, don't fly hung over! It wasn't quite as bad as my trip back from Melbourne probably due to the fact that hard liquer doesn't sit very well in my stomach. Ah exciting times.
So it's been quite a while since I last updated. It feels really daunting to even try to tell you about everything. If there's something you want me to elaborate on (bands, the class, filming in Connecticut, visiting museums, watching Kobayshi beat his record), let me know. I will say that if you ever go down to Coney Island you must ride the Cyclone roller-coaster. It may look pretty tame but the thing is incredibly rickety and designed well before roller-coaster designers started taking in things such as rider comfort. You get thrown around a lot! So yeah, if you want to know more about New York just ask.
What am I up to know in Texas? Well... not a whole lot. There's not that much to do here but after New York I'm really in the mood to slack off. Just getting a decent sleep has been great!
Also, if you didn't see slushpup's post me and slushpup will be going to Belgium for the Pukkelpop festival where we will get to se BECK!!! plus a lot of other awesome artists. I also plan to try and get in some fine Belgian beer and chocolate.
Jul. 19th, 2006 @ 09:49 am
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Hey guys, it's been a while since I last updated. Sorry. It's just that sitting at a computer and typing out live journal entries seems very counter productive when there's so much to see and do in New York. Still it's important to keep in contact with everyone. Well the course has been going very well so far. The other week we discovered that we have access to a seemingly unlimited supply of film. Whenever we end up budgeting our film wrong and needing more they seem to have no problem with giving us more to shoot with. Due to this we've started to adopt some very bad habits of just shooting lots of film instead of rehearsing a shot until we get it right and then rolling. Why rehearse when you can just keep shooting until you get it right? Of course the reason we have this large supply is so we can experiment and try things out and we do a bit of that as well. It's great fun compared to when we only had one 100ft roll of film to shoot our ad at ECU.
( want to know more about what I've been up to? Then go behind the cut to read on! Oooh, excitement! )
Jun. 17th, 2006 @ 07:08 am
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So !!! are playing in Brooklyn this Sunday. I had tried to buy a ticket last week but had some problems with the credit card. I got the problems sorted out only to find that TicketWeb no longer had any tickets available. I tried to call the venue to see if they had any (just got an answering machine) and even went to the venue but the there was no one there (even though their website says the box office is open between 4pm and 11pm). I became a sad little panda. The thought of having to be in the vicinity of a !!! concert and not actually go to a !!! concert is torture. Unless... I had some other exciting New York dance-punk band to see. One that I might actually hold in even higher regard than !!!. Hmmm... who could that be...
Druzzi's Wyld Stallyns!
Which band features Gabriel "Druzzi" Andruzzi and is the only band to have left DFA records? Why I think that might just be The Rapture! And if you look at the Crash Mansion site the gig is actually listed as 'Rapture Benefit Show'. My ticket has been purchased and you no longer have to worry about me compromising my morals to get into the !!! show.
I'll give a proper update on what I've been up to some time soon. I come down with a cold but haven't got a busy week planned so I should have time to update. For now I'm going to go pop another cold tablet and hit the sack.
Jun. 6th, 2006 @ 10:10 am
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Okay I haven't updated for a while and a lot have things have been happening. Believe it or not, but there's a lot of things going on in New York. Oh and it seems there were some really bad photos of me taken at Don Hills the night I arrived. While Sparks can make you seem happy and awake, it doesn't stop you from looking like you've just spent an entire day in airplane.
To start with, the cinematography class I've been doing has been really good so far. The teacher is a really great guy and most of the people in the class seem pretty cool. The equipment we get to work with is absolutely awesome. A great range of lights and really fancy professional dollies too. While I'm a bit behind the class it seems like I'm not the furthest behind and others have stuffed up much more than me, this has made me feel more comfortable. Yesterday I was actually showing people how to load and use the camera (it seems of the people who didn't know this stuff I was the only one who looked up and read the manuals... and then forgot everything when they got to class, reread them all over the weekend and came back an expert this week).
They call everything by different names over here it took me a while to discover that a 'stinger' is actually a power cord. Set procedure is the big thing that's taking me a while to get a hold of seeing as we actually follow a proper set procedure here. I got in trouble for not saying the correct thing when rolling the camera last week. We've always said "camera rolling" but your supposed to say "speed". The terminology comes from the fact that in early days you had to wait for the camera to get up to the full shooting speed and that's when you yell out. It actually turned out that my assistant camera man hadn't set the camera speed correctly so my not yelling "speed" was technically correct. I've learnt quite a lot already and there's still a lot more to go. It should be good.
This is going to be long, I better put the rest of this behind some cuts:
( Architecture In Helsinki & Clue To Kalo )
( 5th Avenue Apple Store Opening (with dogey celeb photos!) )
( more bands and other random stuff )
May. 24th, 2006 @ 08:33 am
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I woke up at around 11:30am. Had I gone to sleep at a reasonable hour this would have been a good sleep. However I hadn't gotten to bed until about 5:00am or something. Normally I would have rolled back over and gone back to sleep but not today. I had New York Fucking City to explore! ...after a quick game of Metroid Prime Hunters. However, I soon discover that I had lost my stylus! I played it when I got back from Don Hill's and it appeared that I hadn't put my stylus back in the holder and couldn't find it anywhere in my hotel room. Well, that was as good an excuse as any to go to...
THE NINTENDO WORLD STORE
The place was so awesome. Tons of great merchandise, so many games, and cool pieces of Nintendo history. They even have jeweled DSs for $500! The has a massive Smash Brothers competition going on. These guys were mad! From watching them, I think we need to use the downward throw more often. If they allow it I might try and take my video camera there sometime to so you guys what it's like.
I checked out the rest of the Rockefeller Centre and then walked back to my hotel checking out various cool places along the way. Forbidden Planet is this great comic shop, book stores the size of libraries, and there's this cool place called The Build-a-Bear Workshop where you build your own bear. You even stuff it yourself! There we lots of other cool things but they've escaped my mind at the moment.
By the time I got back I was really tired, both from lack of sleep and walking all day (I need to remember to buy new shoes today or tomorrow). I decided that I really need to take a quick nap if I want to enjoy Kid 606 at Crash Mansion that night. Well my quick nap turned out to be not so quick. I woke up at 9:45pm quickly called my mum to say happy mothers' day and then decided to go back to sleep. Yeah, Kid 606 would have been an awesome show but I was just way too tired to enjoy and I have seen him before. Plus I needed to be well rested today since I have to check into the uni residence and get my uni id card and stuff all sorted out so that I'm ready for class tomorrow.
By the way, if anyone has any recommendations for cool gigs let me know. You can check out everything that's playing in New York at Oh My Rockness.
May. 14th, 2006 @ 09:11 pm
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First off, I did find Metroid Prime Hunters in Singapore in some random shop that I didn't expect to be selling DS games. The downside, it was $94 fricken' dollars! All the other shops had DS games for around %50~60 dollars! This place had games from $20 to $94 which seemed to be depending on how good the game was. Metroid Prime Hunters being a god damn awesome game was @94 dollars! I decided since I would have gladly spent up to $70 to get the game in the first place, spending an extra $20 to be able to play it on an 18 hour flight wasn't that bad. In the end I think it was worth it since the game is awesome and kept me well occupied during the flight.
Anyway, night one in New York. Go to my hotel, check in, shower, then go grab dinner. Grab a Blimpies Sub, I think Subway is better, it was alright though. Then go down to Don Hill's (which turns out to be within walking distance of where I'm staying) because The Juan Maclean and Tim Sweeney are DJing. Get there at 9:45. Catch the end of some random rock band. They were okay and they must have been somewhat famous since everyone there wanted to get a picture with the lead singer (well she was cute). Rock band crowd leaves and Tim Sweeney DJs to an empty room. It was a cool set but I didn't feel like dancing on my lonesome. Then Dave P (I think he's one of the resident DJs at Don Hills) takes the stage. Everyone starts coming in and drinking this stuff called Sparks. I decided to see what the fuss is all about. Turns out the fuss is that it's free from 11-12 and also that it tastes really nice. It is also packed with caffeine and alcohol (6%). I think it should be renamed to PARTY JUICE!!!!111 Me and the crowd down much of this stuff and the dance floor takes off towards the end of his set. Tim Sweeney comes back and rocks the place. After having two Stella's and 2 free Sparks it dawns on me that I haven't been tipping. At 11:55 I order two sparks and give a tip of "5 Dollars" the bar person says thank you for the generous tip. Later I discover that I still have many a five dollar note but am missing the $50 dollar note from my wallet. D'oh! Damn you American dollars looking all the same. Okay so they have added coloured notes ($5 = yellow $50 = pink) but it is hard to tell under crazy club lighting conditions. Don't tell this to my Mum!
Sparks fuled, I dance away to Tim Sweeney, and then to the mighty Juan Maclean himself. I guess I must have gone a bit spastic since I got asked if I had any drugs about four times. I don't think these New Yorkers are used to my mad styles. Also, Sparks is awesome! However as I type this I offer this waring. The affect of the caffeine wears off quicker than the affect of alcohol. This stuff really hits you at the end of the night.
Anyway despite my over generous tip, tonight has been awesome! I just wish I had some of you guys to share it with me. Dancing is so much better with friends.
May. 13th, 2006 @ 04:09 pm
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I promised you guys I'd update this thing more often. Here you go! I'm just wasting time in Singapore, got a few hours still before my flight to New York takes off. I was hoping to pick up Metroid Prime Hunters for my DS but none of the places in the airport have it. I've still got my other games, my iPod, this laptop, and the in flight entertainment to keep busy. Oh and I also have my video camera. If a film I made in an hour got in to The Comedy Channel Short Film Festival just think what I could do with 18! I've got a pack of gummy snakes. Snakes On A Plane anyone?
May. 12th, 2006 @ 08:49 am
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| » Hello! Goodbye! |
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Okay, fly out to the US at 1:00am Friday morning. I feel perfectly prepared. All I need to do is chuck some clothes in a suitcase and I'm set. My mum doesn't think so and I'm constantly being run through last minute things I need to know now. I have an 18 hour flight to read all the things I need to read before arriving in New York and I have 9 weeks in New York to get all the other small things for the rest of my trip sorted out. I really do want to catch up with everyone but I do not know when my parents will give me and free time.
Sorry the small thing on Sunday was so short notice, I was originally going to organise it as a proper thing and give everyone enough notice because it was going to be the last day I knew I was free. However, my dad threw some surprise early mother's day celebrations into the works (which didn't actually happen because it turned out my mum had planned stuff for the day) that threw my ability to plan something for Sunday out the window. Very sorry. Really I am. You all probably know I'm not a fan of having big birthdays. I just don't personally enjoy having random attention on one day of the year. When I'm about to leave for over three months, that's when I'd really love to gather my friends together and have a big thing. With Melbourne, Jenny's birthday, my sister's birthday, and stressing parents I just haven't had the time.
I will try to pop into the Rosemount on Wednesday after my sister's birthday dinner. I don't know when I will arrive and I probably won't stay long since I have a day of my family stressing over last minute things to endure on Thursday.
If you want to contact me while I'm away you can try these methods:
e-mail: swinzar@iinet.net.au
skype: samwinzar
ICQ: 4643709
MSN: samthedingbat@hotmail.com
or this livejournal
Melbourne was awesome even though the weather sucked and I didn't have much time to do stuff. Liars were mindblowing even if I didn't get to film them or Snowman for Video Dingbat. I drank many a beer on The Comedy Channel's tab even though my film won no awards. I'll try and do a proper write up sometime. No promises.
May. 8th, 2006 @ 09:07 pm
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This is news to me!
Which member of But, Our Empire! are you?
Also if you love a good conspiracy here's a great one. Did Michael Jackson actually do the soundtrack to Sonic The Hedgehog 3?
And while you're YouTube-ing it up, I find this to absolutely hilarious.
Mar. 28th, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
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| » Going from bad to (hopefully) good |
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Well last week was really shit. Why? Well my dog survived two strokes and was starting to make a good recovery (not a complete one but one where she could continue to have a decent quality of life) when she drowned in the pool.
( rambling details behind cut )
Things do seem to be looking up at the moment though:
-Things look pretty much sorted for my trip to the US to visit friends and do a few short cinematography courses. I'll be leaving early/mid May and come back around August
-Video Dingbat (my video podcast thingy) has been doing quite well. The Diplo interview has had over 200 unique downloads and the Pivot episode has had over 60. I would have been happy with 20 (which even the Stina documentary has surpassed!). Hopefully Jens will approve the footage for his episode soon. If anyone is able to help get bands for this please do.
-I no longer work Saturdays! That means I can go out and enjoy a big Friday night!
-I've been neglecting to mention that a (very) short film of mine (called "Love") has made it into The Comedy Channel's Short Film Festival (a part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival).
-I have Ren & Stimpy Season 1 & 2 and Aeon Flux on DVD! These shows are golden!
-I should hopefully be able to pick up Metroid Prime Hunters tomorrow! Any other DSers picked it up yet?
*d'oh Metroid Prime Hunters comes out in May not March. Damne me getting my 'M' months mixed up and assuming we'd get a game around the same time as the US*
Mar. 27th, 2006 @ 09:40 pm
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The little project I've been working on over the past month or so has finally come to life! Video Dingbat is weekly (for as long as I can keep it up) video podcast featuring live footage and an interview with a different musical artist each week. The first episode features the amazing Diplo. If you have broadband please got to Radio Dingbat and check it out. If you don't have broadband, it's probably not that feasible for you to download it (it's about 50mbs) but if you still do it would make my day.
The video is in iPod Video format but it will play fine on your computer with the latest versions of Quicktime, iTunes, or VLC. If you like it, please subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, just click here and it will do it automatically for you or you can manually add 'http://dingbat.libsyn.com/rss' as a podcast feed. If you're not a fan of iTunes try out Democracy, it's a lot better suited to video than iTunes is but the Windows version is a bit buggy.
Please let me know what you think of it, I really do want to hear your feedback. Also, if anyone is able to get in contact with any local bands who might want to be featured on an episode let me know. I really do want to showcase a lot of the great bands Perth has.
Mar. 10th, 2006 @ 02:06 pm
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Come see a bunch of films officially declared better than mine!
Sunday 26th of February
Princess May Park (FTI), Adelaide St Fremantle
Gates open 6:30pm
Should be good fun!
Feb. 25th, 2006 @ 12:51 am
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Please let me know if this video is working for anyone. It's a preview of my Diplo interview (and a little goofy bit I'll probably leave out of the final cut anyway) for Radio Dingbat. I'm planning to start a video podcast style thing. It's in .m4v format which is the iPod Video format, if you have one please let me know if works or not. You should be able to view it in both Quicktime and iTunes on your computer as well.
Diplo discusses his next album
Feb. 17th, 2006 @ 03:04 pm
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Going to the Big Day Out on Sunday? Then why not start your day with Sam's Big Breakfast In! 9am - 10:30 (ish) My House (message me on 0403 414 822 if you need the address).
Come fill yourself up with lots of food to give you energy for the big day and save you from having to spend as much on overpriced food inside the show grounds. Hang out with your friends and discuss your plans for the day. Listen to my 'bands playing at the Big Day Out' play list to help you decide who to see if you haven't heard some of the bands or just get you excited to hear it live (if a certain act needs to be on the play list then hook me up with some mp3s or bring the cd). Organise last minute "shit I need to go to an ATM" runs, and have my parents make sure you're wearing sunscreen. We might also have some water and snacks for people take down but you should probably bring your own just in case.
"Who the fuck wakes up that early?"
Well normally I don't surface before twelve but if I have somewhere to be I always wake up early enough to get a good breakfast in. It is the most important meal of the day!
"The first act I want to see is at 1:30!"
Expand your musical horizons and go take a chance on something else! Support local lads The Fault (11:00am) give Wolf & Cub (11:30am) a try, and how could you want to miss Gerling (12:30pm)? There's also Youth Group at 12:15pm! Plus there's hanging out with your friends or checking out all the other random things happening at the Big Day Out.
"But I'm still going to be hung over from the Bourgeois Bogan/Modular party on Saturday night!"
I may be in the same boat as you! I'll try and make sure there's a good supply of Berocca. But if you've had your energy drained the night before the thing you need is a nice energetic breakfast to get you through the day! Sleep? That can be solved with caffeine, we should have some coffee available if you need it.
"Uh.... I'm not going to the Big Day Out."
Well, do you still want to stuff your face with food and hang out with your friends? Then come down anyway!
Please let me know if you're going to come so we can make sure we have enough food for everyone. Friends are welcome, just let me know so there's enough food for them as well. If you get down early you may also be able to grab a parking spot on my lawn.
Jan. 31st, 2006 @ 04:57 pm
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