cat visit

the last cat that came into the yard was some mangy moggy on a rainy day who wanted to take shelter in the outdoor laundry and run his muddy paws on my black 60s wool dress. bad kitty.

this one gave me a fright this morning when i passed by the kitchen window, but more content to stalk things in the grass (hence grass hanging off its face). loudest small cat who also looks like a descendant of ocelots or something. probably worth enough money on the cat black market.

one of the first things i did when i moved out of home was to buy a bottle of oyster sauce. this salty brown sauce that in my reckoning does not taste much like seafood is the stuff of stir fry and other than a big bottle of soy sauce, something that says “chinese kitchen” to me. lee kum kee all the way.

nark hall of fame

finally saw young adult today at the cinema, nearing the end of its run with the strange 1pm screening once a day, as well as an outdoor cinema showing at night. every bit as good as it promised from the faux hardcover promo poster. if you like your anti-heroines biting, and your nineties band nostalgia full on, this is the movie for you. (hey diablo cody, speaking of writing screenplays around ya books, is the sweet valley high movie still happening?)

unsympathetic young female protagonists with few redeeming qualities paradoxically also result in some of my favourite tv shows and movies. mavis of young adult is a cringing piece of work, but as of today deserves a place in the nark hall of fame.

top to bottom, clockwise : mavis hanging out in kfc, eavesdropping on teens for secret ingredient for that next paragraph in her novel; enid from ghost world exiting the adult shop; jaye from wonderfalls.

honourable mention to tessa from recent tv show suburgatory, who creepily looks more like her dad’s new girlfriend than teenage daughter, and has the right idea with sarcastic commentary but still needs to go up on the nark-o-meter.

the red ball project

popping up at different locations each day during the perth international arts festival, these ordinary everyday spaces become pronounced by a big red mass. yesterday it was facing off a more permanent artwork, the “perth cactus“. western showdown!

hot house & current plays

perth has been pretty hot this week, so i’ve been doing a lot of indoors. watching japanese commercials and screen capping their sets, playing games, the usual.

following the current theme, maybe i should go and buy some makkoli (cloudy rice wine) and make a shrine of crazy.

February 12 from sardonicsmile on 8tracks.

I Want You – Joan Jett although it says ‘& the Blackhearts’ according to the best of liner notes this was a song recorded with the Runaways but not previously released.
You Didn’t Try To Call Me – Frank Zappa heard it on the radio and thought it was a derivative sixties band song, ’til i got to the end…
sa_i_ta – Tokyo Jihen so tokyo jihen are breaking up by the end of this month. pretty used to the start-stop-end of shiina ringo projects by now, but this is easily the best song on their final ep.
Ran into Bookstore – Naomi & Goro bossa nova for quiet nights
C’est La Mode – Annie Philippe also sampled on a hideki kaji song
Lafaye – School of Seven Bells another radio song, although i kept thinking of boris’ pop output
doudou – LAMA interlude in LAMA’s debut album. half the band are ex-supercar, hence their sound
拖鞋 (Slippers) – Wei Ru Xuan
iYo-Yo – Bomi

light + house

i decided to take pictures one day because of the light on the wall, which faded from that spot five minutes later…

fixations

clockwise, from top left:
- lady gaga as virgin mary alejandro candle, virgin mary candle from amor y locura, candle designed by kazuyo nomura (love her patterns) from ikea
- joan jett book by todd oldham, full of classic jj pictures from the 70s and 80s. seemed to have ignored that brief scrubbed up, less make up phase circa “the hit list”. that’s forgivable.
- i finally started cooking again! dinner from the other night pictured.
- maisha magazine, in particular this one about tokyo interiors. (if you know your way around some basic japanese, you can buy and read online via zasshi online). also i finally have a work desk at home which needs some work before it gets to this standard…

a shrine to girls

my favourite place to be on the internet, rookie, just posted 155 of its readers tributes to whatever they are into now/in the past/forever. in the guise of a shrine, they pay tribute to heroes dead and living, imaginary or vaguely just about being a teenage girl. the closest i ever got to that was sticking the empty boxes of all the japanese candy and biscuits eaten during one year to my wardrobe door. a shrine to taste fixations? below are six of my favourites from rookie:

i’m still waiting for my mexican prayer candles to turn up in the mail so i can start constructing my own.

ideas for 2012

- try again on the cooking for one deal, since i will now be rid of the effing fridge that roars well into the night but curdles milk. fresh produce will make sense once again. use big girls small kitchen as help.

- organise desktop with the help of ikea folders

- speaking of ikea, either get a wardrobe, or pretend i am buying a stuva set for my imaginary kid even though it is for me, and shove all my clothes in it. also want nice bookshelves, which may or may not be ikea paradox

- achieve equivalent age score in brain training on nintendo ds. youngest is 37, oldest 52 so far. so bad at this, mathematics is not my strong point

- watch the 10 000 or so movies downloaded and arranged in plex so i can free up hdd space (first movie listed, ‘the architect and the painter’; last movie listed is ‘the woman knight of mirror lake’)

- continue obsessing over joan jett, mexican prayer candles and beci orpin artwork

(pictured, pastries, coffee and the end days of our youth)

happy new year and book post of doom

happy new 2012! may you achieve your dreams and have a safe, healthy year.
i’ve been digging through my old film scans and decided to put together a collection for you bibliophiles out there. (for those on goodreads, may you reach your goal of x number of books read this year! i kinda fell 12 short of 50…)
the first couple were taken in singapore, the rest perth people can guess…

meetings

something i made while at a zine collective meeting.

boxing day

busy christmas, boxing day playing a tiny set at a friend’s house. les paul pee wee, pog, feed backer, phase shifter. xylophone.

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