ShallowMuse

Cherries, Artichokes and Zooey?

Monday, 9. November 2009, 14:59:15

Cherries are yum. Except they go rotten veerry quickly which sucks!
And we got some artichokes the other day, havent had them in ages. My nonna used to prepare them all the time for us but since she passed away, we didnt get them until now. Seems a huge waste of a plant though, you have to chuck half of it away just to get to the heart!
Also, a very shnoo looking Zooey. Too much cuteness!

*bangs head on keyboard while waiting for pictures to upload*
gosh things are taking forever to upload on here lately. will just continue speaking to myself until the bloody picture uploads, which at this rate could be well into the next century. Nope, still nothing. My images arent even huge for heavens sake!
Alright we shall have to forgo Zooey until a later date. Thats all folks!

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Alice in Wonderland

Monday, 9. November 2009, 07:07:07

alice in wonderland

Ok so last night i read Alice in Wonderland for the first time ever (i know i know, shocking!) and after reading it, i felt like i had just come off some insane opium binge. Lewis Carrol, WHAT WERE YOU ON?! Well it makes sense because 5 out of 6 households back then were on opium but good grief i had to force myself to concentrate on what was going on half the time because it jumps from one place to another and all the little songs inbetween..

But in same instances, the writing is so clever! The use of puns and play on words is great! I liked the Gryphon and the Dormouse the best for some reason and i love how everyone is so mean to Alice (esp at the Mad-Hatters tea party)

Silly little girl! Like she's suddenly stupid because she's the only sane one.. ha! i love it.

There was the biggest storm this morning! Like at one point when there was lightening you could here it starting at one point and physically RIPPING through the sky.. MAJOR! Am not going in to tech today because the first years are having their evaluation and trying to find a lecturer today will be like trying to find a lion in a pet shop. Impossible. (yes guys, even for Africa

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Chop.

Sunday, 8. November 2009, 18:30:26

turtle soup for the soul

Aah i'm such a chop sometimes! We're not writing history tomorrow, we're writing on Wednesday. The 11th. I never ever know what the date is. Oh well, not a train smash, more 'study time' (read study- read everything but study). Just sucks because that is the day before evaluation.. grrr! We have to put all our stuff up on that day AND write the exam? I dont know on which planet our lecturers live but i'd like to visit there sometime.

I just watched that Heston Blumenthal series when he does those feasts.. Oh. My. Goodness. The man is a freakin genius! It was a Victorian inspired menu based on Alice in Wonderland and it was so interesting. The way that guy's mind works is insane, but awesome insane!
Creative people rock the world! I mean, edible bugs in an entirely edible garden? Yeehaw!
And turtle was a super elitist, expensive food in Victorian times. They imported something like 15 000 turtles from the Carribean to make turtle soup.

Shame, poor turtles though.

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EPIC

Saturday, 7. November 2009, 13:19:03

Get ready for an EPIC post of amazing content and special effects, like cats on fire and screaming children! Okay not really but i just want to go on about alot of different things. It may not even be alot but let us go with the flow.

Was trying to type this earlier but one of my brother's friends that is visiting came and made himself comfortable next to me, and i cant type while someones watching over my shoulder goshdammit! and made me listen to 'fidget music' which is code for 'crap music' and Johnny Cash.

NUMBER WANG
Exhibit A:
Pictures. Was going through my camera and found a picture that i took while walking around of a business in Joburg that looks like its slowly being sucked into the ground. Its 'modern architecture' or whatever but i dont like it. It screws with my eyes.

OKAY looks like the picture thing isnt working today, how can every picture i upload have an ERROR. Stupid technology!! And i even took pictures of my humongous textbooks to show everyone how lame they are. Poo.

Anyway, am feeling particularly knackered this weekend. Went to Joburg for that cellphone promo training and hit a bit of traffic just to come home to do an hour of water aerobics

(my brother and his friend just came in and showed me a video of them shooting something then it exploding in our back yard. Anarchists!)
Yes then worked today and am working tomorrow then exam on Monday and evaluation on Thursday. Good Cod i cannot wait for this week to be over with!

Am thinking i want to change me hairstyle somewhat drastically, but am afraid to go tooo short. But i want something different!! I cant colour it some mad colour(s) but i fear this would be too short even though i think its awesome:

Just got a text from Iv, now all confused about which chapters to study for history because the lecturer told them to concentrate on stuff that's not in the specified chapters. I swear tech is going to gimme a brain tumor by the time i leave there!

And it's still raining.

i really hate the word 'random'. it's everywhere and overused! have started saying obscure instead. granted it doesnt have quite the same meaning but hey. Shall name my firstborn Jude Obscure *place surname here*. ha!

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Swedes Are Doing For Themselves

Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 20:11:48

The Tallest Man on Earth.
He sounds just like Bob Dylan! Just to me, a more listen-able version as Dylan can get a tad bit whiny and nasal after a while.
Alot of my friends and i are starting to listen to a lot more classical, folk stuff lately. Things go in cycles, and i think we're starting to get sick of 'music' (in gigantic bunny ears). Classical music has more of a depth to it, it kinda is more epic and makes you marvel at human skill when it comes to music. So stuff like Bell Orchestra, Boards of Canada, The Arcade Fire.. all really good music in my opinion. I just cant listen to like BOC for more than the first 4 or so songs in succession.. i start needing words! And violins kick asp.

http://www.myspace.com/thetallestmanonearth

The Arcade Fire. There are alot of 'em.

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Make Me Some Art

Wednesday, 4. November 2009, 10:03:22

Hey! Are you bored like me? Then do this! (If you havent already on facebook months ago but do it again!)

INSTRUCTIONS:
1 - Go to "wikipedia." Hit “random... Read More”
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. (It's album art, so make the picture square)

Here's my band, Paretroplus with our debut cd, I Have It No Longer.
IN STORES NOW!

There is good money in album art. I designed a cd cover for a guy and am getting paid R800 for it apparently. COOL!

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Reality Bites!

Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 12:52:13

I think i may have done a post on reality shows before but i'm going to do one again! I really dont understand some of them. Ok, granted, some reality shows are actually interesting. But then you get the E! entertainment channel that takes it too frikkin far. There's that show called "The Perfect Catch" and i watched one episode yesterday and i'm still not sure what the point of it is. Ok, there are like 6 'gorgeous people' that go around different islands in Greece looking for the 'perfect catch' (i.e the hottest man or woman they can find) and then... what? They can win R50 000 for finding a hot guy? I'd love to be in a brainstorming session with the people who come up with this junk.

"Ok, here's my idea. We audition thousands of beautiful people from around the world, then only pick 6. All the gals have to have enormous fake knockers and the men must be super tanned model types who live in the gym and idolize themselves."
"I'm liking the sound of this Marty!"
"Then, we put 'em all on a yacht in Greece and let them do pointless tasks like 'frowing balls into the sea, just so we can get aerial shots of the gals boobs yea, then we get em drunk afterwards and see what 'appens."
"Go on..."
"And they have to go onto the beaches looking for equally if not better looking 'catches' we'll call 'em (because it sounds witty and Carmen Electra has to say it) then bring em back to the boat at which point the judges (who think they 'ave the sun shining out of their arses) will rip apart these innocent people about their looks."
"MARTY YOU'RE A GENIUS!"

gah.

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Some stuff that is not studying

Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 08:20:38

drawing

So i was trying to draw Bob Dylan the other day and i realized i can't draw him. Like i struggled so badly with his face! So instead of wasting a good ol' piece of A2, i decided to try a different approach to drawing and went crazy with a fat marker and copic markers.. Yeeehaaaaw! I then decided to do some other people but deliberately distorting them a bit. So here we have (in bunny ears ")
"Bob Dylan"
"Marilyn Monroe"
"Joel Gion"

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Trade Card Theme- November!

Monday, 2. November 2009, 14:59:15

Trade Card Gang

Here it is members! Chosen by our Lindsay,

Things I cannot function without (but don't really need)

Should prove to be interesting!

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Garden Cats and Spandex

Monday, 2. November 2009, 11:13:27

cats

Funny how one can always find something to do other than studying! Stupid history. So i decided to take some pictures. Nice subject matter is lacking in my immediate garden but i took a picture of Pearl, the cat and some glorious pink flowers (this pink is like my favourite pink).