Mmh. That's right.

"Not factoring climate change into economic forecasts because we "can't see it yet" is like not factoring terrorism into security because we haven't had an attack yet in Australia"

You always hear parents, teachers and other various old people saying 'time flies while you're having fun,' or plain old 'time flies,' and you know, I've never been entirely convinced. When you're sitting in a lecture, or on a really long busride, or something else equally as long and painful, time seems to be taking one step forwards, two steps back. In fact, time can on occasions just sit still. But I'm convinced now. Life has, in the past two weeks, simply vanished. It's not even about movement now, it's a flat out disappearing act.

Big Day Out

It has been nearly two weeks now, so memories fade. Oh but beauty remains. Lovely, lovely beauty. Beautiful music/men/emos, they are all still here. Lo, they are. Who did I see? Huuumm... dot point time;

• Evermore
  
• Mychem
• JBT
• Jet
• Muse
• A whole lot of people's backs

Sometimes you forget how freakin' annoying people can be. When people are in the mosh and falling over you think - why can't you just stand still? Yet, the annoying little freaktards keep pushing, keep moving. So we're in the evermore mosh and it's alright, it's okay. Then they leave and we're waiting 45 mins for mychem and these IDIOTS are being so stupid. I mean, i'm not exactly versed in mosh etiquette, but I think NOT being an idiot is probably a reasonable prerequisite. Anyway, so Gerard (oh em gee, SO much more beautiful in real life, i mean, he's practically old and he has his beautiful hair and face and soft little body, oh wow i just want to squeeze him) and co came on stage and then they just go emocrazy, so Rhian and I decided - fuck it - and got lifted out. I LOST MY SHOES. So i'm standing at the barrier with rhian, singing and dancing to the other songs with no shoes on whilst llama is still in the mosh. What a champ. Then they go off and the emos go and seek elsewhere and LLAMA FOUND MY SHOES. So in a way it ended very well.

The rest of the day before muse was basically spent ferrying food and goods to people and being stuck in lines to go places. After mychem, pilch and llam were still in the mosh area and rhian tom and i were stuck outside. we watched some of jbt then decided to go and line up for the mosh. OH MY GOD. you'd think after what, like, 13 years of BDO, theyd have worked out a good system for getting people in and out of the mosh and letting people know when it was FULL and not going to be OPEN again. But no, they have the little gate with the little red lights, and a bunch of dickhead security guards who don't do anything except look smug. It took them the WHOLE of jbt, the WHOLE of the killers and MOST of jet for someone to say 'oh, sorry people, no more mosh, the red stays on'. i mean FUCK. what kind of sadist arseholes run that part of it? anyway, i got out of the line after about an hour and found a barrier position for bellamy & co. So rhian and tom and me and standing at the barrier - blah blah jet blah. then there's the early-jet-finish silence. the crowd is pretty rancid at this stage. like, seriously, freaktards are at their all day high. but they are NO match one MUSE start the blazing knights of cydonia. oh, what a glorious opening. i was seriously just going crazy. aaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh. sooooo amazing. what a way to be. they also played

• starlight
• supermassive
• map of the problematique
• plug in baby (!!!!)(favourite muse song!)
• newborn
• time is running out
• hysteria
• butterflies
• stockholm

the adelaide mishap was really quite beautiful. i thought it was funny anyway, though apparently the unshakeable folks of ye olde backwater perth did not. but every song was executed with intimidating precision, everything so passionate, everything about bellamy so enigmatic, it was all so amazing, exciting, enthralling and captivating... i don't think i can capture in words the beauty, the absolute.... i don't even know. it was too much for me to try and process. explain. relive. it's all just in my mind like a pleasantly warm pool of memory, like a beautiful moment playing over and over. i was so excited i think i cried. why was it over? why why why why pourquoi why? oh, couldn't he have stayed forever. cry.

i missed tool. no, i avoided tool. all those long-haired punch-ready bogans bored me. i went and talked to lovely men from uni. contemplated violent femmes. left.

melbourne update must come tomorrow, during more wakened hours. i slept 12.5 hours last night. so very tired. so little sleep in melb. maybe a total of 36 hrs. it took me 10 seconds just now to work out 6 x 6. waaaah.

VIVA LA MUS(E)ICA!

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