bleh

What a day. Relatives everywhere.

Merry Christmas all.

*mixes therapeutic Baileys and milk - 90% Baileys, 10% milk*

Daft Punk

Way to go Modular.

silly wristbanding rule you've created. Well, there are some very, very cranky punters, myself included.

Finally - the NSW State Government does something sensible.

Finally. A move to reduce the number of pokies in NSW. Though they are fun to play sometimes, they really sap the life out of venues.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/its-a-win-on-the-pokies/2007/12/06/1196812922121.html

Pigment and Lipgloss and Bronzer oh my!

Oops. Went on a bit of a cosmetics haul this weekend.

MAC Silver Fog pigment is amazing. A light wash gives a lovely silvery cast. Put on a bit more and it looks like molten silver on your eyelids. It's brilliant, and it's going to make for an awesome robot-themed Daft Punk face.

Also stocked up at Kit - a new Kit lip gloss, Too Faced Pink Leopard Bronzer (because it's just sooo CUTE!) and Havaianas Blush nail polish. The nail polish is stunning. It matches the light pink Havaianas exactly (not that I own a pair) and is a lovely opaque pink. My toes are very happy in it.

Now I must exercise some self control and NOT visit the new Inglot store near my work.

Cosmetics

One notably absent topic from my blog thus far has been that of cosmetics.

The real reason is that at the moment I'm pretty boring in the makeup department, and I'm pretty sure no-one wants to read about the skin problems I'm trying to resolve before I start wearing mucho makeup again.

On the subject of makeup, however, I am very much looking forward to the MAC "Originals" collection. If anything, I want a chance to check out Parrot, an eyeshadow held in high esteem by many makeup mavens.

Boo!

So, I'm a bit slow.

I had noticed that Myf Warhurst has been notably absent from triplej this week, and the intros to the show had been redone to exclude her name. Silly me, I thought she'd gone on holidays or something and the other two hosts were trying to be funny.

Today I checked the triplej website and found a "Goodbye Myf" guestbook. Ack!

Turns out she's taken a job on MMM in Melbourne. Awesomeness. No more Myf in the mornings for me.

I am not a happy camper.

Schmeh

Horrible day.

T-panel replaced by car dealership after they accidentally damaged it last week while fixing my ipod connection. What was meant to take 15 minutes took an hour and a half, making me hideously late for work.

However: now my iPod connection isn't working properly again. Yep - car has to go back. Again. It will be the fourth iPod connection related visit to the service department.

The day didn't improve from there, basically it just made me behind in everything.

The one high point was the news that I would soon be receiving a new technology toy to play with. Soon as in, tomorrow. Huzzah! Gadgets always cheer me up.

One last thought: I think people who tailgate L-platers who are driving at their legal speed limit (80km/h) on the motorway should have their license revoked immediately. To the one I saw doing this very act this evening: L-platers are learning, I'm sure they don't need your ugly SUV up their bum, intimidating them just because you're a weedy loser. Go and grow a brain.

Big Day Out - first announcement

BDO first announcement went out on Tuesday.

Looking forward to Rage Against the Machine, Bjork, LCD Soundsystem and Midnight Juggernauts.

It's going to be a good summer for festivals.

Weekend is here!

Glad to be at the weekend... it's been a long week (albeit a short work week.)

Currently have Pendulum stuck in my head.

Muscles - Guns Babes Lemonade

Ice Cream can certainly save my day.

Love the album.

nom nom nom

Cup cake baking experiment was a success.

yum!

Found!

The name of a track has been bugging me for ages. I had no idea what it was called or who it was by. As it was more of an electronic mishmash, I couldn't search lyrics, either.

Found it today! Grip Like a Vice - The Go! Team.

What else am I listening to?

Konichiwa Bitches - Robyn

Various Daft Punk offerings (gosh, I wonder why?)

We are the Night - Chemical Brothers (it's a great album)

Other fantastic news - Rage Against the Machine are touring in January. Rumour has it they'll play BDO in addition to the shows already announced.

I am one happy camper.

MAC holiday

I might actually splash out on MAC's holiday collection this year. there's some really pretty stuff.

NIN - MOAR!

Ok, so this footage is from Munich. I couldn't find decent footage of this track from Sydney.

This is what Only looked like on Saturday night.

Compilation? I think not.

Why, oh why has iTunes decided that a few of my albums (by a single artist) are actually compilations?

I don't understand...

Nine Inch Nails - wow!

So I went to see NIN last night.

It was much better than the last show (same tour, same venue) that I went to. The production this time was FANTASTIC!

There was a portion of the set where there was what appeared to be a giant LED screen behind them... then after that it turned out to be a translucent curtain - and it was now in front of them. Video would play over and cover the band, then you could see them when there was no video.

I really, really want to know what it was. I found some info that on a 2005 tour they used an opera gauze curtain and projected video onto it from Front of House... but it didn't look like this was a projection. The way the screen looked and acted led me to believe it was LED driven, but I've never seen a translucent LED curtain before.

I must find out.

Bits and Pieces

Vista: I am not enjoying it so far. Seeing how much memory and system resources Aero takes up was staggering though. I've turned it off. Some things I just do not understand: Why have they changed where things are located.. when they've been there for many, many versions? Why have they hidden options that should be easy to access? Why are there 3 ways to turn off the computer in the same menu space?

Once I get my brain working again, I'll post full updates.

On the music front - Do yourself a favour and listen to Who's afraid of Detroit - Claude VonStroke. Is good. Beautiful, even. The rest of his album seems ok, I will withhold full judgement until I get hold of a copy.

Bella Vista?

So.

In the next day or so, I will be given a Vista workstation. I get to try and break it. No, I can't pour soft drink onto the processor while it's running. My chances of scoring a new monitor (without breaking the old one first) from IT would plummet if I did that.

I get to try all sorts of weird and wonderful tasks on it, and report back on how it assists (or impedes) my work. And if I can make it crash all the time. Like, by booting up the computer or something. That works in Windows, right?

Wish me luck. I may need it.

Underworld - Oblivion with Bells

I know I mentioned that I wished that the new Underworld album was being featured on my favourite radio station. I'd heard one track and wanted to hear more.

No, it's still not featured. The very idea.

However, word on the street is that the new album is very, very pretty. (Yes, that's verbatim. It's pretty.) I can't wait to hear it. Hopefully soon.

Blog has name. All is well with the world.

Well, here we are. The blog has a name. All is good.

So, officially, I'd like to welcome you to Cosmetics, Cacophony (ie, music) & Computers. Just because I love all those things.

Ack!

The feature album on my favourite radio station (triplej) is the new Kanye West album. ergh.

Please someone save me. Why can't they use the new Underworld album instead?

It's tougher than it looks

Whew. Many hours of work and the blog is now up and running.

Tip # 1 - Image upload for the header only works sporadically in Safari.

I know this blog look a bit, erm, spartan at the moment. Chalk it down to crazy, restrictive templates that require much trawling through XHTML code to find out where to amend the finer details.

Oh yeah. Name of said blog is also temporary. I'm still working on the content.