Category Archives: all the other stuff

and who said october couldn’t be awesome?

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the release of Panic! at the Disco’s new single today, This is gospel, from their new album coming out in october got me thinking just how awesome that month is gonna be.

well, to start off, 2nd of october marks exactly 5 months until my birthday (always a plus). then we have Panic!’s new album, “Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!”, coming out on october 8th.



next is the super awesome, highly anticipated, new pokemon games. X and Y on the 3DS. a whole new style, platform and generation of pokemon and gameplay including riding on top of pokemon, mega evolutions and the introduction of the brand new “fairy” type!

 

 

 

 

for the end of the month, what could be better than not only seeing fall out boy for the second time in one year but to also be seeing yellowcard 3 days later!!! omg i love concerts and these are both gonna be insane.

and to top off an entire month of awesomeness, just incase the days between these incredible events get a bit too unexciting, pretty much every show i watch returns sometime in october so be prepared for many posts on the new episodes of supernatural, arrow, vampire diaries and anything else i may be watching.

oh, and uni finishes in october too. i think god likes october.

bring on summer!

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so, i found this awesome site just through my general boredom of trying (and failing) to get some uni work done and i think it’s just a great blog to keep a track of: http://theverybesttop10.com.

this specific post about makeshift swimming pools i really loved, (although this one on top 10 BBQ’s is brilliant too). even if it’s not summer, this rain that’s pouring down right now would be perfect for filling up a makeshift tarp pool like some of those images. my favourite is the heineken pool – swimming and a beer, so much summer fun, i can’t wait for holidays.

reading this post reminded me of a makeshift pool i swam in last year that was made from a tarp in a hole in the ground in the middle of the hot israeli desert. anyhow, i would seriously recommend checking out the very best top 10 site, its got some great posts.

i wanna be the very best, like no one ever was!

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if you don’t know what line comes next, i’d suggest skipping this post coz it’s gonna be a face-full of cartoon nostalgia. oh where to begin?

so these last couple of months (over the holiday’s mainly) i’ve been, lets say indulging, myself in all things cartoon. well not all things. more just revisiting all those great things i loved as a

child but haven’t really thought about over the last ten years (well, except for Pokemon, that one’s stuck with me the whole way). why do we stop watching the things we love? i guess the number one reason is that we “out-grow” it. but as i’ve just realised, i have not even come close to outgrowing my old faves like Teen Titans, Pokemon or Kids Next Door. in fact, i even just watched all 3 season of avatar (the original cartoon, not the movie with blue people) which i had never even seen before and loved it!

so, if we don’t out grow them, what else is it? often it’s the sad reality that our favourite after school show has been cancelled. but i think the main reason we stop watching is that, as we grow up and move into secondary school, watching cartoons

stops being “cool”. and in high school, everything is about being cool. so if you’re still watching ash and pikachu try and become the best in all of kanto (or johto, or sinnoh, or hoenn. or unnova (but who really watched the unnova season?)) then you’re a nerd. no-one wanted to know which element you would rather be able to bend (for me it would be air or water) because soon it was all about which house would you be in at Hogwarts? (gryffindor of course) and then were you team bella or team edward? (neither, i can’t stand those stupid sparkly vampires) and now, if you don’t watch game of thrones, then you know nothing (john snow).

but, what’s life if you can’t enjoy the stuff you love? so i went and ‘aquirred’ all 5 seasons of Teen Titans and boy is it great. i miss all this kids stuff. i miss spongebob’s crazy antics. i miss debating with myself over whether i would rather have raven’s or starfire’s powers. i miss wishing that i had Fairly Odd Parents to help me get out of doing homework. i miss the playful adventures of the rugrats. and i never thought i’d say it but i miss team rocket. as a kid you just think they’re the bad guys, always trying to steal pikachu. but they are the comic relief of every episode. however, now that i’m older, i’m a little worried

by all their cross dressing, but as a kid you don’t pick up on that stuff. but they do it a lot. and being older, you notice things you didn’t. like all of meowth’s cat puns, or every time team rocket break the 4th wall.

so i say screw being “cool”. because all those old cartoons were the best. and if you can’t honestly sit down and find one thing you like about a show you used to love, then you should be ashamed. because your childhood is an important part of who you are today. and lets face it, pokemon are awesome.

 

(wow, that was a nerdy post)

Where is the mole???

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ok, before i get started, here’s a little warning to you all. i am a tv fanatic. i don’t watch every tv show (although i do watch a lot) but i just tend to get a wee bit obsessed with the ones i do watch. just ask my friends. i can name you every episode of supernatural, almost in order, and tell you what happens in every single one. and there are 200 of them. i can tell you the entire story of lost, almost episode by episode, and all the hidden clues that were in each one. i can also list all 50 states of america and their capitals off the top of my head (no, not tv i know but i just think it’s cool. and pretty useless. but so is pretty much everything i know). anyway, my point was, get ready for a lot of tv posts.

and heres the first. and it’s about the mole. and if my family saw this they would think i was crazy. i am the first one to say that i do not like australian television. ok, don’t count in scripted stuff like offspring or whatever coz i don’t watch any of those. just our reality shows. i just can’t stand them. everything is so overdramatised and exaggerated and dragged on and dumbed down. its like they (you know, those tv people. and yes my plan is to be one despite my obvious disdain) think we’re all stupid. and yes, we probably all are. but only because we’ve been shown this stuff thats made to seem like we’re unintelligent.

let me give you and example. back in (ok, not really sure how long ago this was, assume like 07/08 or something) when biggest loser was all that. we would get the american season and it would be a nice, one hour episode on a sunday night that had a challenge, a couple of exercise sessions, a weigh in and an elimination, all wrapped up in one neat little episode. then take our australian version. we would have and hour long episode on each night from sunday to friday. and oh were they dragged on. everything would be shown from five different angles. you would get video diaries of people describing in unnecessary detail what we had just seen. and we would come back from an ad break to see the exact same footage of the last 5 minutes before the ad break. there were ridiculous temptation challenges that pretty much forced the contestants to eat fatty food and don’t even get me started on that stupid “Stone of doom” advantage. (ok, it wasn’t called the stone of doom but i like the word doom and those stones annoyed me so much). you know what i’m talking about, “the walk” where they picked a stone out of a fish pond and could eliminate a contestant or have some other huge power. why do we need that?

ok, that rant dragged on a bit long. and it’s probably not that last you’ve heard from me on this subject. my actual point for this post was my annoyance tonight at the mole being shifted!!!! yes, it is just as terrible as all those other reality shows that i can’t stand. but i’m hooked. and i need my weekly dosage of suspicion and mole-action. especially because its the american summer hiatus and none of the shows i actually care about are on until october. anyhow, at 9:30, i excitedly ran downstairs to my tv to find some interview with footy peeps has pushed my beloved mole out of this weeks schedule!! i know it’s ratings are horrible and channel 7 is clearly trying to push it away (we had 4, hour and a half episodes in week one and now its just a crazy 2 hours blast out late on a wendesday night) but at least just put it on after or something. but now i have to wait a whole nother week before i can spend two hours shouting different guesses at my tv. yeah, the essendon drug scandal is big news, to those who love footy. but why are those people watching channel 7 at 10:00 on a wednesday night??? its a conspiracy to get at the mole. i just know it. and that footy panel was so awkward to. well, i actually have no idea. i stormed away from the tv in a huff. but thats what i heard from others.

ok, this has probably been a bit too long. i tend to get carried away when i rant. sorry. will try to keep them shorter in the future. but if the mole gets pushed back again i can’t promise anything.