A Victorian Summer

YMI EP Competition!

We came SECOND !

Was really the most amazing night - thanks so so so much to all of you that voted for us online in the first place, to all of the incredible people who came and supported us and the other awesome bands, to the organisers of the event, the judges who picked us for the top 2 and everyone else who made the night one of my favourite nights in ever.
Also a massive congratulations to Vice Versus Versa - who are not only ridiculously talented but also super-nice! They are also playing at 4 Walls with us, so come to see them there!

Honestly, hearing the people in the audience sing the words to Waiting Tables in the final performance, I nearly burst into tears! It was so incredible to imagine that these were my words, words that I had come up with on some dull school night in my bedroom, and that this was the music that Rob came up with soon after - and that people were singing it!

Also, to the group of guys in the front row reaching out their arms and yelling "I love you, touch me, have my babies": It's so on. Meet me in the bushes behind Coles at 1800 hours.

(strong black independent woman hand movements)

me being passionate

Rob being groovy, as usual. 

YOU HEART-MAKERS, WHOEVER YOU ARE, YOU WERE SO COOL. 

Merci beaucoup et je vous adore. 

Cook(ies) with Anna

The most orgasmic cookies in the universe: 


WHAT THOU SHALT NEED:

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 170g unsalted butter, melted
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 cups chocolate chips (or a few tablespoons nutella - I got creative). 

WHAT THOU SHALT DO WITH THAT STUFF

1. Switcheth on-eth yonder oven to 165 degrees celcius and grease baking trays. 

2. Sift together (important for smoothness and, consequently, orgasmicness) the flour, baking soda and salt. Set aside. Do not sneeze or you will get flour in your eyes, not to mention snot in the bowl. Fact. No-one likes phlegm cookies. 

3. In a big bowl, mix together the melted butter, brown sugar and white sugar until they are as blended as... very blended things. 

4. Beat in vanilla, egg and egg yolk until the mixture goes light and creamy, then add the sifted ingredients til just blended. 

5. Chuck in a massive amount of choc chips and stir with a wooden spoon. 

6. Put blobs of cookie dough on baking trays, don't make them too big because MASSIVE BOSS COOKIES are way harder to share. It becomes an issue of everyone taking a cookie, even though the cookies are the size of their heads, and then you are left with none, instead of everyone taking a way smaller cookie leaving you with a bajillion. Truth. 

7. Bake for 15-17 minutes for massive boss cookies (if you ignored me) or 12-14 minutes for smaller ones. Test with a fork if you are a pro-chef. 

8. REMOVE, COOL AND EAT. 

The future is where we belong.

Look, it's a good song. Ignore the fact that the only video I could find was a Gossip Girl montage. 


Good morning all. I hope you had a swell weekend. I certainly did - it was filled with French things and ended with a pretty awesome friend's party so that was tres bon.
I also appologise for the sad lack of pictures in this blog as of late (Borat does not count). It has become dull and ranty, but as is my head, so it's appropriate, I suppose.
In other news, there are official facebook events for the upcoming YMI gigs so if you have not been invited to those, take a page out of my book and invite yourself.

I don't really have a plan for this post, so here goes nothing. I've been thinking a lot about the future, and when I say that I mean not just what I will eat after I have eaten that. I have been thinking that I have only one and a half more years of school (must remain calm and not start screaming and/or burning books in excitement) and so after that I will just have a BIG EMPTY CALENDER. And then, I can do whatever the hell I want. I can travel to Tibet and be a monk. I can grow dreadlocks and live in a van. I can get a dog, cat, bird or pig and name it whatever I choose. I can travel to every country in Africa in no particular order just because I feel like it, and, most importantly, I can sleep until whenever I want, go out whenever I want and generally just enjoy myself. 

And in this big vat of emptiness I have thought of a plan. A vague one, but a plan nonetheless. Plan goes as such:

1. Finish school. Try not to die of happiness.

2. Get a job, hopefully somewhere where I will not have to do anything (i.e. City Beach).

3. Work for a few months, not spend money on clothes, chocolate or stupid DVDs featuring Jennifer Aniston.

4. Go to South Africa with whoever wants to come, see family, network, chill with the lions, etc.

5. Fly to bonny England. Always wear ski jacket and ug boots and travel with personal heater strapped to self. Meet friends, stay with friends and family, and take small trips out to Europe. Would like to see Greece, Italy, Holland, etc.

6. Spend a month in France. Try very hard not to get diabetes and limit amount of butter/cheese consumed.

7. Depending on money situation (or lack of), travel to Asia. Avoid horrible tourist practices, such as in Cambodia, where can have choice of either blowing up a cow or machine-gunning a chicken. Try a least 28 new and exotic foods (refuse anything to do with animal scrotum, on principle).

8. Return to Brisvegas in time for summer and then lounge around and reflect on the wisdom and worldliness that have gained from enlightening trip around world.

So with my vague plan in mind, I have something to look forward through the dark and miserable days of IB EXAMS, which make me panic.
NOTE: For those of you who haven't seen the new Harry Potter, stop reading. Or continue, I don't really care.

I saw it, the effects were awesome, Hermione still can't act, Ron wanders around looking confused as per usual, Harry makes very interesting faces, the fight scenes were epic, Voldemort is an awkward hugger, goblins are cool.
There was a small period of the film where it was just Harry Potter on Acid. The bit when he died and went into a white place, or something. I figured the writers were just having a small "cigarette" to "relax" during that part.

Also, I appologise to everyone who was in the same cinema as me and, when Voldemort's bloody foetus appeared on the screen, someone asked "what is that?" and a friend of mine said "dinner".



Pip pip.

Quickie

Yeah you heard me. I am winking at you. I am in your cupboard.

That was an unusually creepy way of starting off. If you actually checked behind you or in a cupboard, you are my bitch. Just so you know.

THIS is the most amazing thing I have seen/heard in for ever.

Oh the 80s. The only time when you can wear a red codpiece and be more

than

And thank god.

Also, I have a new habit. It is very unhealthy, but all the best ones are. My habit is inviting myself to things. I also am developing a habit of not attending the events that I invite myself to. Yes, just when you thought I couldn't get more pushy/invasive, I'm not even going to rock up to the thing I invited myself to.

It's stupid, and will make me lose friends and alienate people. Help me.

Another amazing song, not as 80s but a million times more indie....

... which I can't find on youtube. Awkward.

MY BRAIN IS SCATTERED.

Until NEXT TIME.

Details I Promised

So I realised how completely inconsistent I am. Half the stuff I say I'm going to do never gets done and the other half is done shoddily. So, without further ado, here are DETAILS.


The YMI EP Competition is on 22nd July, 6 p.m. at 61 Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove. Be there.


The FOUR WALLS FESTIVAL is on 4th August, at the same place (I think), 3 til 10, and we will be playing at the jazz stage, at 4. 20. Be there. 

You may now continue to your lives. 

hoorah!

Also, I forgot to mention, we hit 2000 views! Wahey! Kablooie! A multitude of bizarre expressive noises!
Here is a celebratory gif.

Also, more celebrations are in order! Thanks to your excellent voting and commenting skills, Rob and I got into the top five bands in the YMI EP Competition! So we will be performing a bunch of originals on July 22nd and we could win the chance to record an EP! The competition is based on our performance on the day but also on the support of the audience, so it would be amazing if you guys could come out in all your glory, bring your lovers, cats, cousins, friends and swag and help us WIN THIS THING!

We have also been asked to play at the Four Walls Festival, which is a music event run by YMI some time in August. I know, I am wonderfully vague. But I promise I will get more details to you asap so you can rave at our gigs!

There are more Emerge vids up on youtube  HERE so have fun and go mad and ... this is needy ... like us on facebook HERE. God I hate doing that.

Again, THANK YEE.

RETURN

Yes I am back from the wilderness of Cairns. Sorry about the mad (lack of) spacing in the last post. I hope it was an exciting change to your otherwise dull routine.

Also, I added a background. I think it's cool, almost like someone spilt coffee over my blog. Probably a New Yorker. They're always drinking coffee. Ohn my blawg. Shut up.

I hope you got a general feel for Cairns in the last post. I think the crazy spacing just makes it more like the inside of my head, which I imagine is full of stuff rattling around in no particular order with NO SPACING AT ALL, because I am a wild and crazy rebel, obviously. My mind would be a stupid place to live because nothing makes sense and there is cake everywhere, and the people are unfriendly and imaginary. Maybe I have a fever. I seem to be making less sense than usual today. I woke up this morning with a runny nose and another person in my bed. She's gone now though.

Anyway, since we last chatted, I:

• Went snorkeling in the Barrier Reef. Which was cool. Fish be chillin. It was a little bit freezing, but I like to think the arctic temperature kept me alert and constantly VIGILANT. At one stage I grabbed someone and said "Hold on, Jack" but they looked at me weirdly and kicked me gently until I let go. 

• I bought a really old book. It's from 1940, and was published in France when it was occupied by the Germans. It is a book on how to learn French, which I thought was awesome. 

• I also bought a Nepalese prayer wheel. I know, we all have one, but I felt I needed another. 

DOES NO-ONE ELSE FIND IT UNSPEAKABLY COOL? The Buddhist monks of Nepal would hold the stick and swing the golden part around while praying. If you open the top there is a scroll all folded up which shows the whole prayer in Nepalese.

I love it.



I did take lots of proper pictures of Cairns and other bits and pieces, but I'll post those in a while after I've been through em.

Also, I had a nerdy pick up line competition with some friends and here are the best:


Baby, I know my chemistry and you've got one significant figure.

Hey baby, up for some high energy quantum tunneling tonight?

You must be a magnetic monopole because all I get from you is attraction.

And Nicky's best one:

I am into bondage.


GOOD DAY, SIR.