Eat my Fuck

My good friend chicken is having a party tonight to celebrate the milestone of her making it to 32 whole years. Its being held at the Hard Rock and everyone has been given a rock star to dress up as.

I am being forced to dress as Courtney Love.

I am going to attempt to dress like this: -

I got out my paints last night and made a beautiful "Eat myFuck" singlet. I decided to go for a slightly longer and larger singlet so that the other punters in the Hard Rock don't have to look at my minge. Nice.

Will post pic's tomorrow so you can see just how trashy I can be!


In other news I watched the Butterfly effect last night with my friend Sarah. What a cool film! We lost the plot a few times though as we were distracted by the extreme gorgeousness of Ashton Kulcher. It was also very fitting because I have been having an odd week for thinking, what with a family friend being very very sick and all kinds of horrid wierd accidents going on around the city. A film based around chaos theory was an interesting watch. Chance is a funny monster.

The Wood Demon and the curse of the Regent...

I went to see the show and it was nice! A very sweet early Chekov. I haven't seen or read much of his really early work before and I enjoyed how it was very clearly a portrait of the writer as a young man, but also how he was already exploring the themes on which he builds in Vanya and Seagull. Other punters were describing it as a "happy Chekov". Interesting when one of the main characters shoots himself and another is doomed to life in an unhappy and unsuitable marriage. I found it very bittersweet. I actually really enjoyed the actors who were playing older characters - for a change. There were a few really strong performances there which made it a nice evening. Costumes were sweet but dull. Yawn. The sound was fantastic (clever boy!).

After the show we partook of a few more free NIDA drinks but they booted us out pretty sharpish so we wandered down to the Reg and proceeded to drink on. Bad plan. I wish my brain would learn that drinking on a school night is a bad idea! I did have fun though - lovely to see Jake who is back from working in London. Also nice to see the kiddies in my boy's class. YAY!

Felt very bad today though!

Had a nice surprise at lunchtime when I was returning my car to the house - Ran into Gwyd who works at the guitar shop near me. I miss Gwyd and Cressie. I wish they still lived near me.

Am only just starting to feel human....

Laughing and sewing

Its been an ok week considering its miserable start.

DV and I went to see my favourite man/sex god (other then my boy) Dylan Moran on Monday night. We had the best seats right up the front and I laughed so hard my tummy still hurt yesterday. I especially liked the diatribe against vegetarians (and nippy squirrels). I also liked the beautiful pink marshmellow creation that some loving fan (not us) left at the beginning of the show. His thoughts on fruit were also marvellous. He rocks my world.

Yesterday I went to NIDA after work to do a bit of late night sewing with my lovely friends Jude and Gabby. I am making a jazzy coat for their show which is on in early April. Its looking quite cool - very blue and has a bit of a kick at the back. I am happy enough with it so far. I just need to finish it! (where does all the time go? I will be nude at festival at this rate!) It was wierd sewing in the gleaming new workshop. The new first years working on their show seem very cute but frighteningly young. I like watching Jude trying to be a hard woman and failing desperately. I also liked that they fed me pizza.

Tonight I am going to the opening night of "The Wood Demon" which is going to be a lot less exciting then the name suggests (although I am partial to a bit of Chekov). My boy is the Stage Manager and the Sound Designer for this production which has resulted in a challenging month or two for him (and me!) but I am very proud of him that he has made it to opening night without hurting anyone or himself (designers beware!!!). He is a clever bunny! I do think though that "The Wood Demon" may be the end of his stage management career. Hooray!

across the sea

I had to say goodbye again yesterday.

The airport makes me cry now just walking through the auto doors.

"Its the too big world vaulting me and its goodbye." Jackyboy had it right there.

The too big world vaults me all the time.

Why is home always so far away?

Even when I run to it, a piece is always left behind.

A piece is always beyond my grasp

I have big books too!

YAY! I have new books! I was very naughty and ventured into Dymocks on my way from delivering Cassock material to the Church Stores in the Dymocks Building. Once you cross the threshold of the wonderous bookshop you know that money wil be spent. Usually I try and avoid going in but today I have zippo willpower. At least it could be said that books are better for the size of my bottom then chocolate - except that I end up sitting on it for longer...

So today in my foray into Dymocks I got three for the price of two. I decided to go for the ones my creative writing class recommended/commented on!
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (hugely recommended by all - even the annoying girl who asks dumb questions)
A Short History of Tractors in Ukranian by Marina Lewycka (they weren't sure about this one but much discussion was forthcoming)
and
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (apparently heavy going but an interesting exercise in point of view and plot)

I just wish I had time to read them now! In about three months time I may even give you a review!

I'm free at last!

Of course the party was lovely and I had a fantastic time. OK OK I admit it I am girly (and probably occasionally prone to bouts of being neurotic)! So sue me.

I had a really lovely weekend with my family. On Saturday (my boyo’s birthday) we ended up chilling out all at home together and it was so nice to have family time. I miss having them all home.

Then on Sunday I went off to NIDA for my Graduation Day! YAY! We didn’t get to wear robes or funky hats but the ceremony was held in the Parade theatre and there was a NIDA montage up on the big screen featuring highlights from the class of 2006. And they provided a free bar and nibbles afterwards – always nice to drink free on NIDA. It was really nice to see everyone after 4 months. The only big let down was not being presented with my degree by the Head of Costume, but the Head of Production Crafts instead. This has inspired me to write a letter to the school as it would have meant a lot more if Fiona had been able to award us our degree.

Then we went off to dinner at The Summit – top of Australia Square. I ate the poshest Macaroni and cheese I have ever had. The view is always fantastic and the service was wonderful. If you haven’t been there, it’s a revolving restaurant that takes about an hour to go all the way around. It does have a cocktail bar and its worth popping in for a yummy concoction and to sit and watch the city go by. It was even better last night because the bridge was closed for the celebrations so all the streets were deserted and you could see all the people walking across the bridge with the funny little blue lights on their heads. Cool!

its my birthday and...

Birthdays are a wierd thing! When you were a kid they were so exciting and you counted down the days. Now they just kind of faze me. Not because I am concerned about getting older - I don't care about that! ... more because I kind of want attention but don't want attention if you know what I mean. What I crave is a couple of people I love around me. Its hard now because I really miss my dad on my birthday - its a bittersweet day for me as I know he would have been first on the phone to say happy birthday and would have done something special for me.

Nothing else really cuts the mustard now he is gone.

This year I wasn't going to do anything. Mum and bro are both home for the first time in ages and I had planned to just hang out with them. Then we were going to have a gathering on Saturday to get some friends together as its the first time we have all three been together in a year.

Unfortunately the gathering had to move to Friday night as my bro has to go to melbourne. And now it has kind of turned into a birthday party when it wasn't meant to be. I will have a fun time, I just feel bad because I only originally invited only a few of my friends - ones who knew my mum and bro as well as me as it was meant to be about them. Now I have heaps of my friends coming (which is lovely and I am looking forward to seeing them) - its just that it now feels a lot all about me. I am also now worried I have offended people by inadvertently not inviting them to my "birthday party" when it actually is not my birthday party! I'm sure it will be fine - I'll drink lots of bacardi and fall in a heap! And hopefully won't sook about my dad.

So anyone who I have accidently offended, please DON'T BE OFFENDED - I do love you and I wasn't trying to single people out. I was just trying to keep it about my mum and bro instead of me.

And to anyone who things I am being overly neurotic and girly... read the title of my blog...
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The wierdest job...

Its official. My job is odd. I thought buying mens underwear and venitian carnival masks for a living was unusual but no, today topped the cake. This morning a colleague walked into my office and asked me to buy her some colostomy bags. Yep - we use those in wardrobe all the time - NOT! Why for do I hear you ask? We have some "policemen" going on stage who are going to theatrically mop their brows and then wring out the skanky dripping sweat from the hanky on stage. So therefore the pocket in which they keep said sopping hanky needs to be completely waterproof with no chance of leakage. We will have to wait and see if it works. As a point of interest I also bought some lovely "vomit bags" as they have a bigger opening - might be more effective.

Well I seem to have got the hang of this blog thing - basically you just crap on! Not really a challenge for me!

Mum got home today! YAY! I am hanging to see her! We also have a lovely English visitor called Sarah who is hanging out in Aus for a while. She used to work for my mum in The Ship. Now don't tell any of the single boys for goodness sakes because she is very pretty and charming - a veritable english rose. I don't know how she is going to cope with the mating habits of the average aussie bloke. From my experience, "Oi love fancy a go in the back of my ute" doesn't really cut it with the more uncompromising form of womanhood which is the English female. They are used to being chased with more style then that! She is staying for a while but will be travelling around so may be in and out.

More Frockage!

Since I am so excited about having a blog (or more like I am still trying to work out how it works), I thought I would post another pic of the stripy frock. This one is better. I also made the pink corset. Which was a bastard.

I am also excited about seeing my brother tonight. He brought me a very small creature from Japan which may or may not be a bear. Even more exciting is the fact my mum comes home tomorrow for two weeks. And its my birthday on Friday! YAY!

OH MY! I finally Succumbed

I have a blog!

Wierd.

I basically got so addicted to spying on my friends lives through their blogs that I thought I'd better get one myself - otherwise its just voyerism right?

I seem to be suffering due to my self imposed "no-trash-mag-purchasing" rule which I had put in place after departing from Woolworths (sigh, relief). I had feared that call centre monkey work had rotted my brain so decided to quit the habit cold turkey. Unfortunately this now means I hold up the queue at the supermarket to get my latest fix of who is doing who and who shamed themselves with bad frockage/no pants this week. I have also taken up spying on my friends.

Hence the blog.

I thought I would launch the new blog with a picture of my first commissioned frock as seen above.

It can currently be seen on stage in Sunday in the Park with George at Q-Theatre Penrith.

Its a nice show and the frocks rock (well done Joshua!). The production design is also very very cool.