within the light her silhouette… (part 2)

Written on the 24/08/08

Hey all, just before i continue on with part 2 i want to just make a few quick announcements.

firstly… FUCK YOU! FUCKS!!!!!!!! the bloody KOOKS are coming to Australia and i found out like 103124e12 years to BLOODY late….. and yes i know i have no one to blame by myself….

secondly… YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESYESYESYES THE KOOKS ARE DOING A SECRET SHOW ON THURSDAY!! (28th) and its free!! and there is no competition or anything this time! its first come first served! SOOOOOOO does anyone want to come see them with me?

alright thats abut it… ive got this blog to write then a video blog to edit… so stay tuned!

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Tuesday… the day after the Death Cab concert and the day of the myspace secret show. Again, tuesday usually means another day at work… however this tuesday was different, tuesday was the day of the myspace secret show. Now, i dont know if i have told you this but the winner of the tickets to see death cab at the secret show receives a double pass, this means that you can take ONE friend with you. Also another thing that i havnt told you is that two of my friends (mark and suds) have also won the tickets.

And this is where it all began… earlier last week on friday (15th) my friend mark approached me and told me that we had won tickets to the secret show, (at this point in time i was completely unaware that i had also won) mark had come to tell me that he was not taking me and that he was taking suds. Surprisingly to mark, i didnt take this to heart as i had already told myself that it was my fault that i didnt win because of my crappy response to the competition question.

Later that night i checked my email and found out that i had also won tickets to the secret show, although i was extremely happy about this, it was also a cause of alot of problems… in other words… i had to choose someone to take… obviously the first person that i thought of and wanted to take was gino, however, that night a close friend joseph (jebbus), who i had informed about the competition, asked me if i had won and i had told him that i had indeed won.

Then something strange happened, jebbus asked me if i was taking him… i told him that i was taking gino, and then he attacked me, saying that we had made a deal that if i won i would take him and that if he had won he would take me… however when we made this deal i thought we were only joking… (mostly due to my excitement that i was going to have a chance to see death cab for cutie live and upclose) and then i was taken on the biggest guilt trip of my life… now unable to take gino i decided that i had to take jebbus… due to my stupid promises… however i didnt tell jebbus i was taking him straight away…

The next day mark informed me that his friend suds had also won the competition and that he was now able to take gino and suds could take an extra person… this was extremely good news and meant that i could take jebbus and everything would be fine HOWEVER what i did next was a big mistake… this is when i did something really stupid… im my mind i had this stupid idea that if i had invited this girl that i really liked (who doesn’t feel the same way about me) to the concert, she would some how fall in love with me and that everything would go back to how they used to be (long story) and so i msged her that night and asked if she wanted to come see them with me. Meaning that i had just ditched my long time childhood friend to invite some girl. (well actually not just some girl… but the girl of my dreams… the one girl who will forever have my heart…)anyways… she said yes… and that brings us back to tuesday…

Tuesday… the day after the Death Cab concert and the day of the myspace secret show. Again, tuesday usually means another day at work… however this tuesday was different, tuesday was the day of the myspace secret show. unlike monday i had already preplanned what to wear for the day which made getting ready in the morning alot quicker.

The day started off as usual… i caught the bus to work (stood the whole way) and then sat there in front of the computer at work and did some BAU (business as usual?) stuff. however unlike monday the hours dredged on for what felt like years… i think this was mostly due to the fact that i had taken the 2nd half of the day of to go see the band even though they started playing at 5.

the reason why i took the 2nd half of the day off was to meet up with noorjan (the girl of my dreams) so that i could hang out with her before we went to go see the band

After finishing off at work i walked all the way to uni met up with a friend then caught the train to museum and walked to the oxford art factory.

There i met up with mark, suds and gino… and this is where the real story begins… (told from my point of view)

Earlier that day while i was at work, mark and gino headed over to oxford art factory early. unsure if the band was already inside, the two walked into the venue and thats when they saw the band eating chinese!! before mark had the chance to yell out “BEN” (mark regretted not doing this soo bad…) one of the bouncers approached them and yelled “beat it kids” scaring the two away.

Later on suds arrived, and the three ran around the back of the oxford art factory and tried to get inside so that they could see the band. suds being the person he is was dressed nicely for the occasion and was the one who would have the best chance of not being questioned whilst attempting to get inside the premises, and so he walked inside. once inside suds looked around to find the band unable to find the band he asked someone if they could take his album cover and get it signed by the band and he was…

Successful…

Yep… he was the only person to actually actually get something signed by the band… lucky…

And so, i had finally arrived, quickly called around to the back entrance by mark and gino,  i was also informed that i was dressed “nicely”. “nicely” enough (since i had come from work) to walk in to the art factory from the back entrance. nervous that i would get kicked out, i slowly stepped in through the double doors… and much like suds… i could not locate the band… which resulted in me giving up and choosing to get a good spot in the line rather then spending time walking around the complex aimlessly…

The actual concert was GREAT! although they only played for 30 minutes, these 30 minutes were magical as i stood almost right in front of the band and listen to their incredible ability… to manipulate their instruments to create such beautiful melodies.

- Chim

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Written on the 11/09/08

I’ve come to a sad realisation that i have an inability to describe my day in the form of text (recount format? im not sure…) and aslo that i detest doing so… so do not expect alot of “recounting my day” blogs entry in the future.

I consider this entry to be one of the worst i have ever written.

Congratulations Death Cab for Cutie Ticket Winner

Hey guys,

So much has happened over the last 48 or something hours… i dont really know where to start… But i guess i should start typing something or else i will continue to just sit here procrastinating…

So… as you can see (or more like i hope that you have noticed) the what im wearing page is up and running! and thats kinda cool except i was meant to do the what im wearing thing at least every second day but since i was in a horrible mood when i got home last night i didnt take a picture of myself and it looks like this might turn into a once a week thing rather then a every second day thing… but neither the less i hope you enjoy it.

Umm…. oh ok… i realized after writing my previous blog that i dont really like the direction that my blog is heading like this whole “im talking about nothing business…” so just as a public notice announcement kind of think i want to tell you guys that i am going to try and steer away from blogs like that and try to write ones that are more relevant? i dunno…

On a completely different topic, one of my friends, Lenny, has recently recorded a vlog (video blog)… and uhh… what can i say… its beautiful. Not once whilst watching did i think “wow this is boring” the whole time i was captivated by his ability to drive and talk at the same time (something that i am incapable of doing) but yeah i know what youre thinking “so what about Lenny’s blog or vlog this is your blog Tim talk about your own stuff” and yeah your right i should be talking about my own stuff so what i was going to talk about was whether if i should make my own vlog tomorrow…

The reason i am asking you this is because in Lenny’s vlog there was a part about me, one on how he catagorized me as scene and his explanation of why he did it… this brought the thought/idea of making a video response, maybe a similar driving video blog…

Recently ive been playing a whole lot of Brawl. This is mainly due to the absolute humiliation that Ricky put me through on Melee earlier this week. But not only did i lose to Ricky (who i consider an actual pro) i lost to Ivan and Billy as well… so with this new found determination i have been hard at work training myself on brawl so that when that day comes, the day where we are playing Brawl not Melee, i will be prepared, readied and poised to defeat my adversaries.

Now to the main topic of discussion. Umm… i dont know if you guys remember… but i think about 2 posts ago i mentioned my participation in a competition to win tickets to see (one of my favourite bands) death cab for cutie LIVE and intimate at a myspace secret show. And so… if you do recall this entry you might remember me saying that i hated myself for my stupid response.

WELL IVE GOT GOOD NEWS!

I WON.

Yep thats right with my crappy response, somehow, i won… this being the first ever thing that i have ever won (on this caliber) in my life i think that i deserved it. With this i basically have an action packed week a head of me… firstly ive got the death cab for cutie concert at the enmore that i am going to where me and my friends just managed to get row v seats for… for this ill have to figure out a way to bring a change of clothes to work and also find a way to leave work early so i can get to the enmore in time…

Then on tuesday ill have the myspace secret show! where ill again have to find a way to leave work early… well actually im planning to work half a day on tuesday then working another half day on thursday after uni to make up for it. Also on tueday i am planning to bring my acoustic guitar to the secret show to see if i can get ben gibbard to sign it!!!

well its 3:41am and im staying up because of stupid reasons that im not going to explain to you… so i think ill just leave it here for today… or tomorrow… or whatever it is…

-Timbo

in 25 words or less…

Hey blog readers,

Nothing crazy has been happening lately so there isnt much to blog about but ill try and make this an interesting entry neither the less =)

Firstly here is my sketch i drew at work haha as you can tell i work very hard…

I don’t think you can really make out what it says… so i guess that its kinda pointless that i showed you guys haha but oh well…

Umm Oh i also took a picture of this man busking on monday he was playing a umm… actually im not sure what that instrument is called… i should find out though…

I know its kinda hard to make out cause he is so far away but i didnt want to walk up and take a picture of him haha mainly cause i was afraid… im not sure what of, but i was afraid.

Oh ive made an update on the blog! like the actual site, i added a “Recordings” page this is where my recordings will go i guess… ill firstly put them up normally on a normal blog entry then ill put them there on that page for quicker access and stuff like that.

Im also thinking of making another page where i can put like pictures of what i wore for that particular day lol much like the canadian girl’s blog but these pictures will go straight to that page and will not apear on the normal blog entries.

Umm… what else… Oh ive started using my ipod shuffle that i “won” from IT camp haha (i beat this girl in the auction for it, but thats another story) the reason for this is because my phone (also my mp3 player) stuffed up on monday and i needed something to use so i could listen to music while i rode on the bus… the thought of using an ipod to listen to my music made me feel… kinda weird… this is mostly because of my detest for apple products… but there was an upside to it! the earphones… the classic ipod earphones… there is something about them that make the person wearing them instantly cool (or maybe not) But ive got to say i did feel kinda trendy wearing them.

So… tomorrow is wednesday which means UNI! woo! haha AND THIS MEANS MPO (managing people and organisations) there is a reason why i love this subject so much and this is because in my tutorial there is a guy called ACE!! yeah thats right ACE! Ace… ace… what an amazingly cool name! a guy with a name like that has to be cool in real life! well… he didnt turn up to the tutorial last week so i couldnt really tell if he is cool but still! he has to be…

Uh… Oh before i go there is a competition on myspace to see DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE!! LIVE!! at a secret show!! “To enter just tell us in 25 words or less the name of Death Cab For Cutie’s latest album and your favourite song. Send your response along with your MySpace URL to shirst@myspace.com” sigh… and this is where i failed… here is my response…

“Death Cab For Cutie’s latest album is Narrow Stairs and my favourite song is Cath… because the lyrics paint such clear images in my head.“

yep… how generic.. i dont think ill be winning this one… i hate my self for this shitty response…

anyways i think its about time i go to bed, so ill end it here for today…

-Teamo Supremo