Trake...in your supermarket freezer aisle

I like to keep every neatly packed away.
How will i keep it so?

after a long awaited absence...
i'm back

this is what i'm spending my three minute between assignments breather on, so you should feel special. The point of this post is not to update you in the ongoings of my life because the truth is you really don't want to read about it. That's ok, i can deal with that. But it is Baggy's Birthday TODAY so get your shit together because we're going out for some food.

Where? Bar Italia, Norton Street
When? Let's make it 12 noon
Why? WEREN'T YOU READING THE REST OF THE FLIPPIN' POST?

Comment so we'll expect you.

Tracey

Hope all your times are fine and dandy.

On the international day of boozing up, it's time to chronicle the different varieties of the drunk:

The energetic/fidgety drunk: Now this includes me and even though you may be quite tired, alcohol will act like 30 berocca and some acid. It will wake you from your deepest slumber and people will like the drunk version of you much more than they like the sober version. There are good and bad issues with that. You will be liked...but only when everyone else is drunk, and in most cases you will be too. Bad: you'll have to be permanently intoxicated for people to like you. Though for some people that's not a bad thing.

The sleepy drunk: Mostly applies to asians for some reason. As soon as alcohol touches the blood stream of the said individual, they will fall instantaneously asleep. Sleepy drunks should under all circumstances be sitting while drinking alcohol or they will find themselves waking up with their face stuck to the pub floor.

The violent drunk: I'm hoping that there aren't that many out there but they do occur. The punch becomes the reflex action from alcohol, completely uncontrollable and always there.

The sleasy drunk: Now this is the reason for many pregnancies, one night stands, and why ugly individuals get laid. And you know it's true. Alcohol brings out lots of hugging, stroking, groping... i think you're getting the gist of what i mean.

The talky drunk: This person will never shut up should alcohol hit their brain. In many cases they actually think clearer when they're drunk. These people usually do quite well at uni despite permanent inebriation. Damn those buggers.

The Silent/philosophical drunk: Unlike everyone else, being drunk turns them into some sort of hermit, mostly due to the depressing truths about life which are revealed with alcohol. Many times these individuals find themselves crying in alleyways and sitting with their best friends in the morning discussing the disgusting state of their love life.

I'm not sure if there are more but these are really umbrella categories. Know another category that don't fit in?
Comment with a new category or what type you are.

I am the energetic drunk.
p.s. Happy Birthday Rosie

Now, i can't go to sparkadia gig i don't think.
But i'm still up for crooked fiddle band tix at the Vanguard
Tix are 20.80 if we buy on the net

so who's in?
they're fantastic live

Who wants to see "Sydney's chainsaw-folk vigilantes The Crooked Fiddle Band" At the Gaelic this weekend? Tix are 15 bucks.

Also Sparkadia are playing at the factory theatre on the 4th of April for 18.50.

So huh?

Who's up for some Yum-Cha????
On either the 17th or the 18th?
I want to see everyone in an environment which makes us all slightly uncomfortable.
Absolutely everyone is invited. Request a day and watch it all unfold.

Hurry up peeps!!
I want this to happen.

Now due to the heavy reliance on most big name film companies on drawing in box office sales by hiring a big "AMERICAN" for films, what you get is "THE MOVIE WHERE YOU SPEND THE WHOLE TIME COMPLETELY DISTRACTED BY THE INCONSISTENT ACCENT". And it's always an american doing another accent. It's hardly ever the australian who does the crap american accent....actually sorry I retract that statement, i have three words for you: The Sleepover Club. I don't know whether you people out there have watched as much post-school afternoon teen programs but this had got to be one of the worst. Not only did they have v. bad narrative (a plus in afternoon programming - because who's brain works post school), but they needed to make sure that not one but TWO of the girls had english accents. And as per usual they were not Chav/Cockney or the mildly disturbing Bristol accent; they were both very closely related to THE QUEEN!!! As all brits do.

I just want to see a show where the brits turn up and there is a chav, a bristolian ("Are you right, my lover?") and someone from Wales. That will confuse the commercial channel audiences.

What channel seven should so buy is...WAWFFACTOR. Truthfully I don't know how to say it but you've got the jist of the possible difficulties which could arise when a network in Australia buys the Welsh version of Idol. And some of you may be thinking, yeah no worries, they're still talking and singing in English. WRONG!!! It's in actual welsh and it's ruddy funny to watch.

I'm losing the point, yes, accents. Let's run through some v. atrocious attempts at the "English Accent"

Anne Hathaway in Becoming Jane: It might just be because she oozes American-ness or that her voice is naturally high but my gosh what possessed the casting director of this flick to cast an American as JANE AUSTEN!!!! If you're American i can give you some concession but if you're British will i get arrested if I suggest that you should be sacrificed for the sake of bad casting? Jane Austen is a sacred figure in the the history of the UK let alone in Literature and her accent really is ridiculous. Apart from being at a ridiculously high pitch, her diction is through the roof which would be great in a speech class but i can just feel how much spit would have been flying at James McAvoy during filming.

Drew Barrymore in Ever After: In the movie that my sister makes the family watch over and over again, Barrymore's accent slips and falls about like a fat kid in a jumping castle covered in grease. And while that mental image runs rife in your mind, I should point out that at no point in the movie does she at all convince you that she is either (1) English or (2) French which for true accuracy she's meant to be. The real star in this film is the Costuming department who quite happily isolated Dougray Scot's genitalia from the rest of his costume.

Meryl Streep in that Australian Movie: Although this is what the rest of the world thinks we sound like it's just plain funny. "DINGAWS GOT MAI BAYBEE!!"

And quickly through the good accents:

Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder: There is v. little "Australian-speak" in this movie but what is spoken is pure gold. If you close your eyes you're basically listening to Russel Crowe in an interview it's so good it's even possibly creepy.

Cate Blanchett in All the movies she's ever done: Now I'm not one of those fan girly people who rush out to the cinemas as soon as a Blanchett movie comes out but if there's one thing this lady can do well is accents. From Queen Elizabeth the First to Tracey from Cabramatta it's just gold. I think the real highlight is her performance in the Aviator.

Every British Actor and Australian Actor to be cast in TV Shows and Movies in the US: Because they wouldn't hire you unless you could assimilate...

Apart from Jesse Spencer.

Toodles,
Trake

Hello Livejournal World,
I realise I haven't posted for a while but rest assured, I've been reading about your raging lives and aweing at the excitement of your lives.


My life's been very interestingly....well boring. Over the Christmas break I've just been working a lot and when I wasn't working I've been at home tending to my family. I feel guilty when I go out so, i don't.

Well If you've been reading Freya's blog then you'd have heard about the shenanigans we had with Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova. I've so very bad when it comes to meeting someone I'm really fanatic about. And we met them and got their signatures and they're both so nice!!!!!

Truthfully I was a little hesitant about going to see them at the Speigeltent because I never want to have that moment where your image of the people you admire is shattered. But they were great, I'm sure Ben Folds is great. I'm not sure whether I'd ever want to meet Mark Ronson (because he's too cool), I'd love to meet the guys from the Cat Empire, I don't think I would like to meet the members of Sigur Ros or Bjork because It would just be really really awkward. i adore them but I understand reality.

Oh and since the holidays have started, i've been reading a lot, watching a lot of movies and a lot of comedy things and hence allows me to develop little crushes on various actors. So here's a couple of more individuals on the "hit" list:

Colin Hanks: featured in King Kong and various other shows but he's got the perfect amount of geekiness for me. There's no one on my "hit" list that doesn't have at least a slight air of nerdiness. Life is better that way.



Shit, I've forgotten all the other MEN!!!! How was that possible?

No worries, it's getting late because i have a piano lesson tomorrow morning.

Cya
Local Trake

Now, as the summer rolls on there seems to be even more people assulted with ORANGE!!! And now i think we've evolved from just being orange to being your hair colour. I swear the number of people who are now the wrong colour is just HUGE!!!!! Why does it look like, if they haven't been assaulted by a giant orange highlighter, they look like they've been dipped in MOLASSES. WHY!!!?!??!?!?!

In conjunction to this, hem lines have been rising. And with that the number, the number of people who should not be wearing the upper hem lines. Why they fuck are hem lines sitting just under the butt cheek? WHY???????WHY?????????

I feel mentally scarred everytime i see that.
How elusive are you if you can see everything???????

Even Dita Von Tesse understands!!! WHy doesn't everyone else?

HEY SMARTIES!!!!!

My memory stick in my camera is just full of viruses. What should i do people?

Tracey

I thought that it was a good day to address the production of trans-atlantic films. Now I'm not talking about those films which bits are done by behind the scenes bitches across the way, I'm talking about films which feature brits and americans together. For example:

The Holiday (Jack Black, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Cameron Diaz [oh why!?!?!?])
The Wedding Date (Debra Messing, Jack Davenport, Amy Adams, Sarah Parish)
Wimbledon (Paul Bettany, Kirsten Dunst)

I don't know who these films are written by but they seem to over compensate for American audiences. Brits tend to say "sod", "bugger" and "mummy" a lot more in those flicks. And the list also includes Four Weddings and a Funeral but since when didn't hugh grant say very british words in films where he was the bumbling idiot.

Like Crocodile Dundee and its freakishly incorrect australian depiction of... well australians

Tracey

I'm a working individual and i am proud of it. I worked the last four days and it feels great not to be a friggin lazy sod. I feel a little more independent and I worked on stacking for Boxing day and It feels weird being in a department store after it's closed. It is quite similar to those bad American movies where the small child get stuck or find refuge in a department store.

I do hope I get a job (permanent) after this, I really do.

Anyway, I want to hear about what everyone's first jobs were. Do we have any newspaper deliverers out there? Chemist assistants... Anything interesting? It better not all be gloria jeans and high paying jobs.

Oh yeah invites are coming out for NYE 08 however they may take some time to get there namely possibly 2 days before new years.
email me @ trake.hau@gmail.com for an e-vite.

Tracey

Hello,
it was great to see people at the hyde park picnic and it only cost us 7 dollars each and OUR SANITY. It was a terribly odd moment where a whole bunch of primary school kids gathered around and started skipping with us and then they kind of took it over for a bit. but nevertheless it was very odd. And for you Adam Hills fans: it was not surreal, just odd.

I hope everyone enjoyed the gifts they received from "Tracey's really crap annual pass-the-parcel". Congratulations to Baggy who got the only canned food in the parcel this year. You'd better enjoy it!!!! If you weren't there other gifting highlights included a floppy disk and a pokemon card which for some reason Ben tried to give back to me. TAKE IT GODDAMMIT!

Why is the news so depressing? I find that I can't watch it for long or it drags me down too much and then i feel like i'm ignorant and in denial (which i am). Currently it's the aeroplane crash in Bankstown on.

Oh my god! My sister sent a package home full of old clothes and souvenirs and encased where my birthday and christmas gifts. Guess what I got??
- A dress
- Minstrels (which are British version of M&Ms without the colours
- AND.........A CHELSEA CHRISTMAS STOCKING. My dad was laughing at me again.

Well gtg cooking dinner.
Cya
Trake

What going to happen is everyone is going to pitch in for the food once we get there and then we're going into the city to venture for food. Drinks are what we don't want to spend money on so bring those. I'll bring cutlery and plates.

Be on time people. The hungry poor people will NOT wait!
With the number of people I projecting everyone will need to pitch in about $7.

I hope for everyone that it's not more.
CYA THERE!!! If you're not coming could you give me a buzz?

Trake

This is the current list please tell me if you're not upon it and you wish to be:
Jem
Rosie
Ben
Baggy
Freya
Amanda
Jess
Nick
Jal
Seb
Me!

Trake

The Cat Empire are playing at the Enmore on 27th February 2009. Who wants in? We must move quickly because they go on sale on Monday.
$59.90 Adult
$51.60 Student Concession.

I can't buy the tickets myself can someone else volunteer?/ I still don't know if i can go.
COMMENT! COMMENT NOW!

Hello My friends, how are you?
It's the festive season and in the spirit of being broke this year we're not having christmas lunch</b> in bar italia but rather in HYDE PARK.

When: Wednesday 17th December 2008 - 11am
Where: Hyde Park
Why: Christmas (oh no i'm so broke) lunch. Also it will feature "Tracey's really shit pass the parcel"
What to bring: Yourselves and food. The food will consist of Chickens, chips and salad. The way christmas lunch should always be. Depending on the number of people of course but i'll be great to see everyone.

RSVP by commenting.

Hello my dear friends,

I had so much fun at Homebake with Jo and Ben and suprisingly i am not sunburnt nor sore (anywhere but my shoulders). I did not get drunk although i feel like i spent a lot of the day as a duracell bunny anyway. I went home sweaty, smelly and tired : sounds like a good festival. Although there were lots and lots of acts these are the ones i saw:

Dash+Will
Eddy Current Suppression Ring (Triple J unearthed) really very very good
Bluejuice (Fucking awesome)
The Dreamkatchers: not that many people at the act but it was just an awesome show!!! And I think that OEC is so hot!
Drapht: Hip Hop act alright, not great
Pnau: The lead singer was suspended from the ceiling of the main stage with giant fake eyelashea, a coloured head piece and a white kaftan and there were dancing strawberries, ghosts, hands and the letters P-N-A-U.
Sparkadia: OH MY GOD!!!! These guys are so very awesome when they play live. I already thought that their songs were great but their live performance just blew my mind. You know bands who have good songs recorded and then play exactly the same? Sparkadia are different they're just fantastic live. Bought one of their shirts.
Cut Copy: It was a good show once they got into the swing of things. after "Lights and Music" then it was good. They also took forever to start.
Crowded House: Dependable and a good show with all the classics and a great calming end to the festival.

Here are some piccys:

From Homebake 08

Me and Ben in the Pit for BlueJuice

From Homebake 08

Me and Jo in the Pit for BlueJuice

From Homebake 08

Is this a little git like a Margeritte?

From Homebake 08

Bluejuice, in their awesomeness. I ruffled the one on the left's hair when he climbed into the crowd

From Homebake 08

YAY!!! MONEY

From Homebake 08

The very cool Sparkadia

From Homebake 08

Sparkadia again.

If I don't post between now and Christmas. Merry Christmas


Trake

BIRTHDAYS EVERYWHERE!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY FREYA
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA

Also who's busy on Thursday night apart from Freya's thing? The UTS architecture exhibition is on Thursday night from 6pm. One piece of my group work will be displayed at the thing. Hope you can come. It's in the building on Harris St wedged between the ABC and a small cafe.

I know you're all really busy but i haven't seen you guys for ages.
Purple sneakers, Abercrombie Hotel, Broadway
Friday next week from 10.30pm
I'd love to see you!

Tracey
oh yeah 10 bucks to get in