Mixed feelings about that year. My story is this, fresh from finishing school, i was on what felt like holidays, til about march, me and my best friend jack looked for a house in Geelong, two other friends initially started looking with us, but they did the dirty and pulled out of looking at the worst possible time, the beginnings of their selfiishness which has culminated in the ending of both friendships.
We eventually found a house, i got a transfer to the supermarket there, I met some great people who i worked with. life was good.
until, one of our friends asked to come stay for five days while she attended school in Geelong. five days turned into 4 months, she treated us like shit, after two months two more friends moved in (three girls in one bedroom) We let them walk all over us, and when they finally left two started talking shit about me and didn’t pay me the rent and bill money they owed us. (now one of our mutual friends, was nearly left homeless and asked to stay with them, they said for a week and then she has to leave, after all we did for them…)
i had my first real relationship. fuck that. he was a peice of shit.
we moved out of the house in december and now i’m back in camperdown.
Callum’s fave moments of 2010
– Amanda Palmer Concert
-Liza Minelli Concert (smoking joints out the front)
-vomitting at the meblourne train station after my birthday party
-our end of financial year sale party!
-Starting a novelty band, Alice’s Massive Cunt
-Ghost Party
-New years eve party
-all the pot smoking shenanigans.
Songs of 2009 (not released just my soundtrack to ’09)
-cornflake girl – tori amos
-lovecats – the cure
-exquisite corpse – yoko ono
-sandy’s song – amanda palmer
-can’t shake it – kate miller-heidke
-fidelity – regina spektor
-heart it races – architecture in helsinki
-baby’s on fire – velvet goldmine soundtrack
-forbidden fruit – nina simone
best movies of 2009 (of films released 2009)
-avatar
-inglourious basterds
-where the wild things are
-milk
-wall-e-
-district 9
-the dark knight
-coraline
-watchmen
Other things i loved,
sangria, 30 rock, twitter, HOFAR, weed, amanda palmer, john waters, wig in a box, moving out, lovelovelove
allright year but bring on twentyten.
My mum is being a bitch. she said today that we’re trying to discourage (my faggotry.) bitch.
seen lots of movies
Avatar at the cinema twice
best movie of the year for me.
i saw Bruno, it was allright, i like it’s politics and not much of the humour, better with the commentary i thought.
i saw feast 1, not all that good, and lacked the whackiness of the sequel
i saw from hell, whuich was medicore compared to the graphic novel.
i saw step brothers, with low expectations, and was blown away by how gunuinly funny it was.
and i finally saw newcastle, a film i’ve wanted to see for ages, and on new years day incredibly hungover it was on and it rightened up my day. it was fab!
Xavier Samuel = om nom nom
monday night: got my little brother stoned, quite funny, i’m enjoying the fact that since i’ve moved home i’m getting along better with both my brothers.
Tuesday, took my little sister Xmas shopping, which not surprisingly was her going to Warrnambool to spend money on herself.
We ended up spending most of the day at my friend B’s house, sister eventually left, I, on a whim decided to sped the night, B took some bad medication and wasn’t in much of a fun mood, but i don’t think i was either. Plans of moving to Melbourne with B were discussed, i said it would be good for her, which i think is true, but i also know i’ll have to be there for her a lot, as she’s terrified of the city, ultimately i want the best for her, but sometimes i don’t know if i’m the best to give advice.
time will tell.
also have plans to shoot a documentary of the summer, as well as my script which isn’t coming along.
anyways, at B’s i mostly played Tekken with her awesome roommate M, a thirty something stoner guy, and in my grand tradition had several cones and ended up fucked. K also came around to visit which was great, but i was pretty out of my head.
everyone went to bed pretty early so i chucked on one of M’s enviable DVD collection, i saw Feast 2: Sloppy Seconds, i don’t know if it was the pot but it was awesome, especially the start, it reminded me of Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, but horror.
part biker chick movie, part generic horror, part gross out comedy. 6.5/10
and as usual when i’m stoned at B & M’s i chucked on a Dario Argento film to trip out on.
last night was The Stendhal Syndrome. not as good as others but still pretty cool, the transfer to DVD was shit and the plot confused me (what was the twist???) but still awesome.
psychological thriller, gender issues galore, not Argento’s best. 6/10
and today the heat was sweltering! it was truly horrid, and i was stuck in a pair of red skinny leg jeans all day, Xmas shopping with B’s family. lovely people though. i think.
got home at around 6.30 with a massive headache, so took two strong painkillers just before dinner and by the end of it was nearly passed out in the salad bowl. mum woke me up when she got home, pills have lost effect so i’m up blogging at nearly midnight.
also on topic of the blog, i think i shall not swear or use emoticons, and just include screencaps from movies i’ve recently watched to keep it aesthetically interesting, as i go i’m finding my pace and style for the blog, though the last few weeks i’ve been exhausted, and not getting to deeply into things.
I’ve been constantly travelling the last few days, all up in the last 5 days i’ve spent over ten hours on trains. it’s torture.
mostly travelling between Camperdown and Geelong moving houses organising leaving etc.
but last night i went to Warrnambool with my best friend, met some of his friends, went to their house, jack left to go to a show, i stayed with these new people and ended up greening out. (smoking waaaaay to much pot) so i’m in people i don’t knows house, throwing up, with absolutley no sense of reality, when who should turn up but one of my primary school teachers and her husband my high school math teacher.
It all started when I was watching singer Amanda Palmer’s live webcast, the other night which involved a debate, ‘Lady Gaga friend or foe.’
I think I’ve decided to take the stance of friend. I wouldn’t say I’m a fan, her songs that i’ve heard haven’t compelled me to listen to more, but I do think she’s talented and pretty darn cool.
Based on just her music videos that I’ve seen, I would definitely take the stance of foe. I would say that she is a vapid clone of pop stars before her, taken to the extreme for the next generation.
However I think to fully understand her is to delve deeper into her image.
To look at her red carpet outfits, interviews, biography and live performances she comes off completely different. I think that her record company may have a little something to do with this, I mean who wants the latest ‘hot new thing’ to alienate possible fans by doing something like this;
Possibly she has started out her mainstream celebrity status in a less oddball fashion to gain pop star status, but over time she’s revealing more of her art, sexuality and weirdness.
Either way it worked, every club I’ve been to lately is blasting her music and the more mainstream kids love it, I believe this is her agenda, to get people to pay attention, to have the appearance of a pop star, and then to comment on it.
But if she’s such an artist, why should she have to do things like the Pokerface video and such, I mean certainly they’re injected with her uniqueness but it’s all been done, to say she’s original at this very moment would be rash. Certainly some of her stunts are original, but to be a true original should she be portraying, this ambiguous a parody of pop?
Is this her brand of social comment? Should it be?
The way I see some of her media is like a beautiful woman dressed as a drag queen. (not to bring up ridiculous rumours about her gender) but when you see that isn’t it just “hey that chick’s wearing too much make-up” it’s not any obvious artistic statement about anything, like it could be, it’s just over the top, to a point where it can come across as tasteless. Unless you did it in an underground drag club and overdid it, but the thing is she’s not underground, she on the radio, your mum is listening to her, she’s in magazines etc.
Has this celebrity she has gained made her comments about fame redundant?
Sure she can be shocking, but yeah shocking to who? The boring people. My world, the freaks, artists and outcasts aren’t impressed with this.
she is highly sexualized, but i just wish she would do something hideous, i don’t know what. it’s hard to be shocking when people love ’shocking.’ More specifically i wish she would come out as trash, but to quote john waters ”The Hollywood system stole our sex and co-opted our violence,” what would make me happy is if she took a shit on stage, oh the pleasure that would give me! It would just make confirm that she isn’t Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera or Madonna. Wouldn’t be pleasant for her though I guess….
The one other artist that I see the comparison with, is Marilyn Manson. Complete opposites, and yet strikingly similar. they’re even collaborators
I can see how these two would be drawn to each other, both make a comment of the state about society that seems to be “I am the product of pop culture.” Both are synonymous with the word “shock.”
But they come from opposite ends of the spectrum, Manson doesn’t say ‘fuck’ sixty times in a song because he’s stalling for time, he’s doing it because society will condemn him for it. The point of his brand of shock-rock only exists because it’s what you can’t stand, and it’s in your face. (not including his last two albums which i would say cater to his fans more so.)
Whereas Gaga makes the statement, “Here’s what you want, another lifeless record company pop idol, but I’m in on the joke, I’ll dance around wearing some band aids and a thong, but do you realise that i’m not that, I’m commenting on that, are you in on the big joke?”
Basically Manson says “here’s what you don’t want, why?” and Gaga “here’s what you want and why?”
Gaga is the antithesis of Manson, and both in my opinion are great performers.
She is certainly much more talented than a bland old pop star, if you want proof I would suggest you watch the video of her performing “Imagine” by John Lennon.
I’ve also heard her acoustic sets are great to.
I just wish she would show her songwriting talent off in her music, even her voice is heavily distorted in her songs.
in conclusion, I think she’s going to get weirder and weirder, I think this will lose her some of her fan base, but I really like what she’s all about and more so what she’s becoming. I hope that she drops the dancing around in undies, pretend to hang herself more often and let her freak flag fly.
Well the basic deatils are – i’m a 19 year old, causasian, male.
I suppose the theme of my blog, will be informing the bloggosphere of, my daily life (quite dull) my filmmaking progress and posts on topics that interest me (ie. film, music, art, GLBT politics etc)
More about me!
Well i currently live in a share house in Geelong, Victoria, well for at least for 5 more days before i move back to my hometown, for a few months. In 2010, i’ll be moving to the state capital Melbourne, to study digital film and media at Deakin University.
I am very ambitious, and one day plan to write/produce/direct independent films.
musically, my tastes vary wildly, currently i’ve been addicted to Nina Simone, Amanda Palmer, Gossip, La Roux, Joe Cocker, The Magnetic Feilds, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Nina Hagen, The Cure and Siuoxsie And the Banshees.
As For film tastes/influences, I woould say my all time favourite auteur is John Waters, but i also love the works of fellini, Bergman, Tarantino, Kubrik, Terry Gilliam, Gregg Araki and John Cameron-Mitchell.
i don’t read as much as i would like, but i just finished Judith Lucy’s ‘Lucy family Alphabet and i’m currently reading Dear Fatty by Dawn French. contrary to popular belief i think women comedians are really much funnier, beside the aforementioned i’m a huge Maria Bamford fan, check her out!
as for my daily life, currently i’m slowly packing for the move home, but i really can’t stand doing it. instead today i went for a walk around my suburb, which i will miss greatly, ate subway (am doing that way too much!) and began writing a film script which i hope to film this summer.
well thanks for checking me out, leave a comment if you read this!
Callum A. C. Skene - Bloggatrix 