Meeting The Paper Kites.

*clears throat* Well then, hello there. Let's leave the apologies for the absence to later. Much bigger fish to fry! Speaking of, fish & chips is what we started last night with :) After a little "what do I wear?" "You don't have to iron my shirt" "Of course I'm happy to, I just wish you'd gotten it organised before tonight" "Do you have your id?" "Course I have my id, let's go :)" "We're here" "Oh crap, I can't find my id SORRY BUBS :(" "It's ok, we can drive back and get it..." "Bubs, I found it" "Here we are again! :)" "We don't really have time for yummy burgers now do we?" situation.

Then off to The Astor Theatre! We were lucky enough to run into Hannah and her man Ben twice before we entered so we saw it as fate and made our way to the front of the stage. I had bought a brand new compact camera for the night (and for the ones that will no doubt follow) and was glad I had done so. The website for the gig so no professional cameras and some people less than 3 metres away were given stern words about using they're cameras shortly after we arrived. They had a Canon 5D (or something around that) for pete's sake! :D


First up was the act Craig and I went for. The Paper Kites. (A little Melbournite band that I discovered while making Craig's first mix tape.) And they did not disappoint! I am just so so happy they played 'Bloom' (if you haven't heard it yet, check it here.) as that was the track that is the "soundtrack of (our) love" (Christina's words, not mine!) Who be that you ask? Oh none other than the girl member of aforementioned band!!! EEP!!!
I was so excited to meet them :) And they were so excited that I had a copy of their first EP for them to sign. Yeah that's right, Peyton Sawyer eat your heart out. That sweetness isn't available for sale anymore. So here's me. Damn excited to have this good-looking crew in a photo with me. *sigh* I love mine and Craig's adventures. And we get to see them again in November when they come back to support Boy &Bear!

Emma Louise was up next and she wasn't what I expected at all. I mean sure, she's crazy talented. But she was wearing THE shortest dress seductively swaying with her guitar. I just, expected something more sensitive. I dunno, maybe I'm just being a bitch. Not all folky Australians need to dress like Julia Stone. I just didn't rate her after seeing her. Although Jungle is an amazing song.


Then Josh! Oh Josh Pyke! It was amazing. He was amazing. His lead guitarist was amazingly into it. Singing to Memories and Dust with Hannah. Filming Middle of The Hill for Lawrence. Seeing Katy Steele and Josh on stage performing Punch In The Heart together... Wow. If I hadn't stood up for 16 hours that day I would have said it was one of the greatest nights of my life. But man was I drained afterwards, straight to bed with a smile on my face.


So, life is pretty sweet at the moment. I still have moments when I get completely fed up and lose interest in everything. But it's mostly good times. And that has a lot to do with this guy. He's pretty great.

Ware? There.

Yesterday I went to Mt Lawley (read: coolest place on earth) to catch up with my little B and have luncheon :) We went to grill'd and it was de'lish! On a roll we decided we'd do a bit of pondering... And we came across an amazing store full of trinkies and fun things! Exclamation mark! They were playing hits off the Garden State soundtrack and the lady at the counter was so welcoming... I couldn't help but buy these two gorgeous little cat bowls (cute pet things are hard to find!) and a couple of pencil-looking pens which I thought were the niftiest things ever. I've actually already lost mine at work so hopefully it turns up - it didn't last a day! Haha.

Shops like Woolworths and Coles aren't open here on Sundays so Bec took me to a little IGA and Farmer's market up near her student accommodation.  I picked up the rest of the ingredients for risotto for under $20. 99c for a massive zucchini?! Can't beat that. It was just a really nice afternoon... concluding with picking David up and having dinner together. He flew out again this morning but will be back Wednesday night. His roster is all over the place lately but it's great to see little snippets of him here and there :) Tonight I'm on my own again so I'm gonna clean and try maybe get a page of scrapping done.

I definitely need a smaller lens for my camera so it's more portable! How much more fun would it be to share and look back on these times with photos included? Argh!