Of Monsters & Men

Caf, being awesome, scored us tickets to Of Monsters & Men, playing at Corner Hotel. They're a pretty cool band from Iceland, I kind of love every song they've released.

I myself am too lazy to check out bands that are playing or who have come down under, so I always end up hearing about it half a year later and being all "WHAT?", "WHY DIDN'T I HEAR ABOUT THIS?" or "I SO WOULD'VE GONE!" etc etc.

The life of the chronically lazy and therefore uninformed is not an interesting one.

Wilson, Homan and I met up at Caf's house and drove to Tooronga Station.

Us being creeps.
I love empty train stations, they're eerie but somehow very mysteriously appealing at the same time. This might just be due to the fact that I watch too many horror movies though.

Speaking of horror movies, this alleyway that we went into after getting off at East Richmond totally spooked me. It looks EXACTLY like one that I was running through in a nightmare. In this particular nightmare, I was fleeing from human-sized puppets whose faces were just cut out features, like a mask
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I'll talk about that dream another time though.

Since we had time to spare before the concert started, we had dinner at Urban Burger.

Caf holding our tickets.
She absolutely loves this band.
You can see it in her eyes.

 Notice how Wilson's burger looks a billion times more appetizing than mine.

Listing of the bands playing at Corner Hotel. I recognised a few of the others too, considered going back to see them. 40 bucks is pretty cheap for a concert ticket,. Well, considering more popular bands sell their tickets for $200+.
Of Monsters & Men is in the middle, second from the top, conveniently covered by the glare from the lights.

Went inside and got stamped.

Love this candid shot of Caf.

This was the first act, they resembled Angus and Julia Stone.
After a while I started to get tired and lie down, it was an hour wait till Of Monsters & Men came on and the opening acts weren't exciting enough for me to stay awake...that hour waiting for them to come on was one of the longest in my life, I swear.

We started to get seriously restless and bored.
Here's a photo I took of Caf standing next to a ridiculously tall guy, he was like twice her height. I think her girlfriend noticed us cos she pulled him away and gave us all dirty looks, haha.

Pictures of shoes.

It started to get pretty crowded in there.

And FINALLY they came on.
Caf and I didn't hold ourselves together very well.
I hereby present to you a shitload of really shaky photos of a band you probably don't listen to and don't really care about, singing songs you've probably never heard of.
And a video.

The video is reaaaally shaky, I was not paying attention to my camera at all.
And yeah that's pretty much it, it's still amazing to hear your favourite bands in person though. I think I like smaller gigs more than huge concerts like Florence, we could've been within 1m of them if we wanted to!
Also you realise how talented musicians are: normally when you hear a song you think, "Eh, anyone could sing like that" but when you actually hear them sing live you realise nope, not everyone can actually sing that well haha.
I'm glad we got to keep our tickets, they gave them back to us at the end of the concert in the form of a free for all pile of paper.

Actually I didn't realise we had the concert that night, for some reason I thought it was on the 30th instead of the 20th. I only realised when I was reading the MX on the train home from uni the day before. I'm such a good friend.

Till next time y'all.

Lonely Trains

So I've been taking a class over the Winter break, so that I have one less class next Semester and therefore more time to relax and study for the remaining subjects. I decided to do this as I am hardly ever proactive, I'm more the type of person who drifts along aimlessly with no clear grasp of what is actually happening around him.

Check out these weird lumpy clouds.

Although as I was late in applying I have a sizeable 4 hour gap in between my lectures and tutes...I'm totally regretting being proactive about my future. Also my tute finishes at 5:30 so it's pretty damn dark by the time I get out of class, I feel like I'm gonna get mugged.
One nice thing is that in Winter trains are generally way more vacant, it's nice to not have to be breathing other people's exhaled air.

By the way apologies in advance, this post is pretty much just a jumbled mess of random things that have happened recently.
Like this seagull, which only had one leg. It was hilarious, it just kept hopping around squawking.

Went job hunting around Chaddy with Selina and Wynne, we're all totally unemployed. No offence to them, but no wonder these kids need jobs: when I walk in and meet them, they're eating lunch at a sushi train.

After we were done walking around getting rejected, we sat down to quench our thirst at Koko Black. Again, not the cheapest alternative but it was super nice, I would totally recommend you this drink if I remembered what it was called.
Notice how I prioritise taking pictures of food over pictures of my friends - professional photography skills right there mate.
Actually to be dead honest I have no pictures of these two from that day, I'm sorry.
It was my brother's birthday, usually we don't bother to do anything in my family. Caring is overrated.
We didn't do anything this year either but I did get him this random wooden thing.

My brother is one of those strange people who like playing chess. I am not one of these people as one of the side effects of this hobby was his pre-occupation with constantly beating me in chess as a child, leaving me somewhat traumatised.
Decided to try using my tripod since the moon was out, I loved taking strolls at night but I limit these to my backyard in case I get run over or fall into a pit or something.

I finished the crossword in MX for the first time ever.
Also got this ring.

People always seem to notice when I'm wearing this ring, it's odd. Apparently it makes me look more gangsta, HAH.

Shameless selfie before heading off to the twin's BBQ.
Ignore the toothpaste on the mirror.
Agh that's pretty gross, oh well.

I take a looot of pictures of clouds, but I just can't help it. They're so awesome. When you think about it, they're literally just massive floating piles of water above our heads. 
Went to my uni friend's house to work on our assignment. And by assignment, I mean the whole Semester's worth of work which was due the next day and counted for 70% of our grade.

This guy lives on a street called Elm Street. That's right, ELM STREET. Freakin' awesome address. Wish I had trees on my street, instead we just have a crapton of illegally parked cars.

Funny story: When I got to his house, I thought I was at the wrong place cos when I looked inside all I saw was an extremely short asian man hobbling towards me at a glacial pace. Turns out it was my uni friend, it just took him ages to reach the door because the hallway was flipping massive. I don't just mean large, I mean huge like 20 metres long, making him look tiny when he was just reaaally far away.
You know what, that story wasn't that funny actually. I think rich peoples' houses just amaze me.

Some of my work for this Semester.

My church had an event thingy, it was pretty cool. There were lizards and snow and stuff and also a photobooth.

Haha, classic.
People seem to be crazy obsessed with The Voice recently, even my family is talking about it which is strange because we never talk about TV shows.
Neeeeeverrrrr.

I'm gonna go ahead and end this slightly incoherent post now.

Watching television in the dark is fun.