This is taken from Alan's blog. And I've been REALLY bored recently, so I thought "why not?"
1. List one book you think everyone should read this year. (if you mention my book for brownie points, please list a second book as well) Alan, sadly I have not read your book, I am poor and the exchange rate doesn't favour the Australian dollar. And I realised then that I haven't answered the question. I just finished "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (in your pants)" by Jonathan Safran Foer, and though it was published in 2005, it's one of the best books I've read.
2. What is your favourite thing about your hometown? I say Melbourne's the best city in the world. I've never thought about why. It's certainly not Connex, our failing train system. I think it's the atmosphere. The people are nice, and there's culture, which is more than you can say for Sydney. We have an Arts Festival, a Comedy Festival, a Writers Festival, a Food and Wine Festival and probably many more I can't think of off the top of my head. There's always a play or a musical showing and probably a free concert or comedy gig that you can get into. I don't know if that answers the question at all either :S
3. Incorrectly complete these Fall Out Boy lyrics: "This ain't a scene, it's a dog wearing a lampshade riding a bicycle through a river" (more ridiculous than creative, but that is definitely not my dog)
4. What would you title your autobiography and how many pages would it be? I definitely know that the front cover would be me making a silly face. I just answered a question that wasn't asked, I could be a politician. It would probably be unnecessarily long as I went off on some tangent. Maybe I could title it "The Life and Ramblings of a Neurotic Teenager".
5. What was the best Christmas gift you've received? A sticker machine. It stopped working though.
6. What's one new thing you learned this week? (they say you learn something new every day, so you should have a few things to choose from) My friend Anna has a surfboard. Which doesn't seem like that much (or maybe not even what you wanted to know), but she's not the sort of person who would own a surfboard. Also who the founders of YouTube are, thanks to a website mentioned below.
7. Open Skype/G-Chat/AIM and type "how's my favourite friend who I haven't chatted with today?" to someone you haven't chatted with at all today. This item isn't a question, just a polite demand to let someone know you were thinking of them.
8. Tell me one really proud moment from your life. When I got my final results for school. When we take our exams in the last year of high school we do the same exam as everyone else in the state doing that subject. Because I'd had some illness issues, I was stressing a lot about what my results would be and I ended up in the top 6% of the state overall, the top 3% for English and the top 8% for geography.
9. Tell me one really embarrassing moment from your life. I still hate telling this story and it's been a year and a half since the incident. In year 11 we had a school formal and at a girls school there is so much fuss and everything about dress, shoes, hair makeup etc. that it drives me insane. Anyway, mum and I decided that I could get my legs waxed, even though I'm not the biggest ran of pain. The next morning I woke up and my legs were swollen, red and extremely itchy because I'd had an allergic reaction to the leg wax. The best part was that my formal was in 5 days, so I spent a lot of the next week at the doctors trying to find a way to get rid of the reaction, as it was causing me difficulties in everyday tasks such as sleeping and walking.
10. Have you owned something for way too long... something you know you should get rid of or replace, but can't? If so, what and why?
11. Fill in the blank: Other than this one, John Green's is the last blog I commented on.
12. Do you have any scars? I have a scar on my left hand near my middle finger. I remember that I got it when I was on a 33 day camping trip with school in year 9, but I can't remember how I got it. I could have been collecting firewood, or maybe I fell off a bike.
13. I say "this is not tom", you say:
A. Who the eff is Tom?
B. Thank god, Tom sucks!
C. Oh, I love staring at page source code all day and solving riddles!! <3
D. And this is not me, not clicking the back button and not not reading the rest of this stupid meme.
14. What do you get complimented on the most? (your looks, your creativity, your impressive collection of black santa figurines) From those, probably my looks. I wish I was more creative (my answers to questions 3 and 4 may or may not prove this. But they probably will), and I would love a collection of Black Santa figurines, but sadly I do not even own one.
15. Paste a link here to your favorite picture online: We were at my friend's house and she'd baked a cake and she dropped it and then it exploded. So here's my friend cleaning it up. Probably as not as riveting as you'd hoped. Sadly we missed the photography of the dropping of the cake and the explosion.
Friday, February 20, 2009
Thursday, January 8, 2009
[09/01/09] The ARIA charts.
Since Twitter is down, I decided to blog, but not to give an update on my life at the moment. I thought I'd have a look at the top 10 songs on the ARIA charts and give my thoughts. This could be interesting.
1. Poker Face - Lady GaGa
This song is okay. That's all I have to say. I think it's suffered from being played several times. I do like what people hear as Mondegreens though. Like "Booger Face" and "Poke her face"
2. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
I have expressed my dislike of Kings of Leon, which was intensified by the time I had to listen to them for 5 hours straight at work due to the fact that Shane and Nick were baking. I'm surprised we weren't listening to them Christmas Day, actually. But this song is okay considering who sings it.
3. Live Your Life - T.I. feat. Rihanna
Rihanna should not have been allowed to use any part of Numa Numa. Ever. The first time you hear it on the radio you think "OMG, it's Numa Numa!" and then there's the disappointment when you say "Is that Rihanna? What the fuck has she done to this song?" My sister and I decided that it would be much more awesome if Rick Astley sang Numa Numa.
4. Get Shaky - The Ian Carey Project
I was not aware of this song, so I am listening to it now. So far it's just some drum beats, and fairly repetitive. Okay, I listened for about a minute and it's pretty crap. I can't listen to any more, and I'm kind of glad that it isn't played on the radio too much.
5. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it) - Beyonce
Um, the "oh oh oh" bit is kind of catchy. I've never really listened to this song properly, nor do I want to. (I don't have that much of an opinion, clearly)
6. Circus - Britney Spears
Nina Jankowicz, aka ninjapiano on youtube did a good cover of Womanizer. That's all I have to say about Britney. Though she seems to be making a 'comeback' every second week.
7. Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Can someone please explain to me why the fuck people like this song? Kthxbai.
8. You - Wes Carr
The best winner's single of any Idol competition ever. I didn't watch Idol, but I heard this song on the radio and I love it.
9. Hot n Cold - Katy Perry
This song is catchy, and when in a fitting room it is kind of funny to hear the words "you change your mind like a girl changes clothes". Does that mean often? I change my clothes twice a day generally. More often if I have work. I have learned to change quickly because of several years of dancing concerts. Overall, having heard some of Katy's songs and one interview, she doesn't actually seem like a nice person. She makes vast generalisations about genders, and in "I Kissed a Girl" there is the verse "I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter. You're my experimental game, just human nature". It doesn't promote human nature very well, or the way we should treat other people.
10. Burn - Jessica Mauboy
I don't really know this song. And I don't want to.
I might keep going for a bit.
11. Sober - P!nk
None of her songs will ever be as good as So What.
12. Alive - Natalie Bassingthwaite
This woman is so annoying. How does she manage to sell singles? I'm thinking of the song now and it's not a great one. Or even a good one. Oh, and her live performances are pretty bad too.
13. So What - P!nk
I like this song because it's fun and there's something about being able to realise that after a bad breakup/divorce/whatever that you can just go on with your life and get over it.
14. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf Feat. Lil Wayne
I can't remember any of the song except the part where "Let it Rock" is repeated over and over again. It's quite annoying.
15. Just Dance - Lady GaGa feat. Coby O'Donis
I like this song, not as much as I used to, once again because it's been played too much. Is it true that Lady GaGa used to be a man?
16. Womanizer - Britney Spears
The only good thing that can be said about this song is that it is perfect for getting other songs out of your head. And it's still funny that "Britney Spears" anagrams to "Presbyterians"
17. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Why did this song only get to number 3 on the charts? It's ridiculous. I hate how society influences what sort of music that's 'cool' to like because that's what gets played on the radio. I bought "We sing, we dance, we steal things" yesterday. I think that says a lot about how I feel about this song.
18. If I Were a Boy - Beyonce
If she were a boy she wouldn't release songs like this one, which would be a good thing.
19. I Hate this Part - The Pussycat Dolls
I haven't heard this song in a while, so I'm going to have to listen to it. Oh yes. "I can't take it any longer, thought that we were stronger, blah blah blah". I remember making a Twitter update months ago saying "I can't take it any longer - I can't take this song being in my head any longer" or something like that. In the good old days when the wireless was working. Seriously, I get my laptop back and literally two weeks later the wireless breaks
20. Running Back - Jessica Mauboy feat. Flo Rida
This song is horrible and it grates my ears. Enough said.
So there are the top 20 songs in Australia, people. It's things like Youtube that make me believe in good music. There are 3 songs there that I can safely say I like and a couple of others I sort of like.
1. Poker Face - Lady GaGa
This song is okay. That's all I have to say. I think it's suffered from being played several times. I do like what people hear as Mondegreens though. Like "Booger Face" and "Poke her face"
2. Use Somebody - Kings of Leon
I have expressed my dislike of Kings of Leon, which was intensified by the time I had to listen to them for 5 hours straight at work due to the fact that Shane and Nick were baking. I'm surprised we weren't listening to them Christmas Day, actually. But this song is okay considering who sings it.
3. Live Your Life - T.I. feat. Rihanna
Rihanna should not have been allowed to use any part of Numa Numa. Ever. The first time you hear it on the radio you think "OMG, it's Numa Numa!" and then there's the disappointment when you say "Is that Rihanna? What the fuck has she done to this song?" My sister and I decided that it would be much more awesome if Rick Astley sang Numa Numa.
4. Get Shaky - The Ian Carey Project
I was not aware of this song, so I am listening to it now. So far it's just some drum beats, and fairly repetitive. Okay, I listened for about a minute and it's pretty crap. I can't listen to any more, and I'm kind of glad that it isn't played on the radio too much.
5. Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it) - Beyonce
Um, the "oh oh oh" bit is kind of catchy. I've never really listened to this song properly, nor do I want to. (I don't have that much of an opinion, clearly)
6. Circus - Britney Spears
Nina Jankowicz, aka ninjapiano on youtube did a good cover of Womanizer. That's all I have to say about Britney. Though she seems to be making a 'comeback' every second week.
7. Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Can someone please explain to me why the fuck people like this song? Kthxbai.
8. You - Wes Carr
The best winner's single of any Idol competition ever. I didn't watch Idol, but I heard this song on the radio and I love it.
9. Hot n Cold - Katy Perry
This song is catchy, and when in a fitting room it is kind of funny to hear the words "you change your mind like a girl changes clothes". Does that mean often? I change my clothes twice a day generally. More often if I have work. I have learned to change quickly because of several years of dancing concerts. Overall, having heard some of Katy's songs and one interview, she doesn't actually seem like a nice person. She makes vast generalisations about genders, and in "I Kissed a Girl" there is the verse "I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter. You're my experimental game, just human nature". It doesn't promote human nature very well, or the way we should treat other people.
10. Burn - Jessica Mauboy
I don't really know this song. And I don't want to.
I might keep going for a bit.
11. Sober - P!nk
None of her songs will ever be as good as So What.
12. Alive - Natalie Bassingthwaite
This woman is so annoying. How does she manage to sell singles? I'm thinking of the song now and it's not a great one. Or even a good one. Oh, and her live performances are pretty bad too.
13. So What - P!nk
I like this song because it's fun and there's something about being able to realise that after a bad breakup/divorce/whatever that you can just go on with your life and get over it.
14. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf Feat. Lil Wayne
I can't remember any of the song except the part where "Let it Rock" is repeated over and over again. It's quite annoying.
15. Just Dance - Lady GaGa feat. Coby O'Donis
I like this song, not as much as I used to, once again because it's been played too much. Is it true that Lady GaGa used to be a man?
16. Womanizer - Britney Spears
The only good thing that can be said about this song is that it is perfect for getting other songs out of your head. And it's still funny that "Britney Spears" anagrams to "Presbyterians"
17. I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Why did this song only get to number 3 on the charts? It's ridiculous. I hate how society influences what sort of music that's 'cool' to like because that's what gets played on the radio. I bought "We sing, we dance, we steal things" yesterday. I think that says a lot about how I feel about this song.
18. If I Were a Boy - Beyonce
If she were a boy she wouldn't release songs like this one, which would be a good thing.
19. I Hate this Part - The Pussycat Dolls
I haven't heard this song in a while, so I'm going to have to listen to it. Oh yes. "I can't take it any longer, thought that we were stronger, blah blah blah". I remember making a Twitter update months ago saying "I can't take it any longer - I can't take this song being in my head any longer" or something like that. In the good old days when the wireless was working. Seriously, I get my laptop back and literally two weeks later the wireless breaks
20. Running Back - Jessica Mauboy feat. Flo Rida
This song is horrible and it grates my ears. Enough said.
So there are the top 20 songs in Australia, people. It's things like Youtube that make me believe in good music. There are 3 songs there that I can safely say I like and a couple of others I sort of like.
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