Pashing Grannies

Bluejuice really do the "good goosebumps" songs sometimes.

Cannot help absolutely BEAMING and dancing when this hits my ears.

Getting me through the last three weeks of uni.

See you soon guys xx

In the depths of my Hard Drive lives many fluffy bunnies and a half-eaten nutella sandwich

washington at bigdayout 2011

working on my skills of live-music photography is super fun and rewarding.

also gets me a lot of conversations with cute boys :)

i've been going through my whole 40GB of storage as it unsorted itself when I corrupted the files and had to get them restored and i'm not even a quarter way through sorting yet, even though i've been at it for a couple of weeks now - the good side of this is i get to re-discover all the things that never got airtime on the blog back when they were born :)

x Lauren

newalbumnewalbumnewalbumnewalbumnew...

not too long now...

Heart Palpitations

This is the new member of my most favourite band in the whole wide world (goodbye john). He is listening back to music he's just layed down for a new album. Last time I got to listen to new music from them was 2006 when my boyfriend at the time bought me the last album they released for my birthday 9 days after it came out - hardest 9 days of my life!!!

So darn excited I can barely breathe.

Guilty Pleasures

Rihanna's recent video and song "Only Girl (In The World)".

Great imagery, great hair, great costumes, great dancey-dancey, great shout-really-loud chorus. Plus you get to watch her attempts at trying to do non-slutty dancing, which really just involves twirling and waving her arms about.

Its worth a listen&look.

xx Lauren

You Think You Know Me

My MP3 player stopped working last year and ever since I've kind of been on a CD/Record kick. In car = my CDs or triple j, and Home = latest downloads on the laptop, or records on my parents' turntables, or my respectable sized CD collection. Its kind of great to listen to music with other sounds around as well, sometimes I think that earbuds are way too insular - the only time I remember bonding with someone over music in highschool was on the bus when we'd stick one in the person who was sitting next to you's ear - you'd share a little bit of your world, or they'd share a bit of theirs. Sometimes we'd put one of each in our ear and listen to the weird song combinations the two songs would make - usually it wasn't that great but every so often the tempos and beats would match up and we'd look at each other in excitement and surprise.

But otherwise it was "oh, they've got their music on, just leave them alone".

So in preparation of two weeks in close quarters with the fam, I've dusted off my discman and gotten all my cds into one zip case... I know, amasing right, things that were basically attached to every teens body as of 6 years ago (wow I'm getting old) are now replaced by tiny things that can store more songs than most of us could listen to in ten years.

I should probably get another MP3 player. But for now my trusty discman gets to live another day...

...even if it does skip annoyingly when I dance around like a maniac.

Alter Ego - Innerspeaker - Tame Impala

This song is getting me through the last two weeks of my degree.

ONLY 7 DAYS LEFT OMG!



Said the voice from afar
Don't you know it doesn't have to be
so hard?
Waiting for everyone else around
to agree
might take too long...
(might take too long...)

When it won't be so hard
(it won't be so hard)

Well it's true
yes, but you
won't get far
telling me
that you are
all you're meant to be
when the one
from my dream
is sitting right next to me oh
and I don't know what to do

Oh alter ego.

Get them to love you
while they may
depending on your words and wealth
the only one who's really judging you
is yourself.
Nobody else.

If I could part
it wouldn't be so hard.

Well it's true
yes, but you
won't get far
telling me
that you are
all you're meant to be
when the one from my dream
is sitting right next to me
and I don't know what to do.

Oh alter ego.

Listen here.

He's a bit strange

But has a velvet voice so he can get away with it I suppose. The "I'm off my tits" head bobbing weids me out something chronic though. Kind of like David Grey (Mr Bobblehead - go look up a video of him and you'll see what I mean), but much much much much cooler.

I would like to let you all know that the reason I have seen this is because my Dad is a fan. No other embarrasing stories behind that knowledge. Unlike a friend of mine who confessed his first concert ever was Savage Garden because he was obsessed with them. And he hadnt been to any live music since then (this was four years ago, and we are 21. You do the math).

But onto strange lead-singer antics with awesome music...

I always feel idiotic once I find out what the lyrics to a song actually are. This is one of them - I've just been kind of mindlessly humming along whenever this comes on the radio, and then I find that he's singing about "blood-buzz" - hipster vampire reference? Maybe?

I really have no idea. It's 12.24 and usually that isnt late but I have an infected sinus and throat from severe hayfever (the devil isnt a red dude with horns, its heavily brut-ed teenage boys - one of which lives in my house. that and flowers.) which means that I need much more sleep than normal but I cant cause I have a 2500 word assignment due at 4pm tomorrow and I've only written... *goes and does wordcount tool* ... 251 of them. So the knowledge that I probably will be getting very little sleep, in addition to knowing I have a vintage market I'm supposed to be ready for by now that on on Sunday and my little brother (the one that doesnt smother himself in hayfever inducing "deoderant") wont give me the commodore to lug my vintage things down to Freo makes me want to go to bed extra bad.

Gosh I wish I had written this many words in my essay instead of procrastinating here. It's now 12.39.

Sorry to have freaked you all out with my mind-spew, I seem to have a habit of doing that (my facebook friends know what I'm talking about). But I think this is the most pretentious blog post I have ever written - so feel free to deride me in the comments if you wish - or ignore this post entirely perhaps. I won't get mad.

I'm a bit strange. Perhaps Mr The National and I can have a late night chat. Once I finish this essay...

Little Red - All Mine

Live @ The Astor Theatre 2nd October

Little Red are quickly stealing their way into the number one place in my heart. Which is an achievement, considering they've only got two albums and are toddlers as far as the music industry is concerned. usually I place my love with other more established bands...

I'm getting better at taking concert photos, but still have a long way to go. Practice makes perfect - take a look at all the other ones (there is an embarrassingly large amount) on my flickr.

xx Lauren

no Lock, lots of Stock, and very little if any smoking barrels

New stuffs at Moose, let loose! Head on over THERE to take a look.

p.s. I am in love with Tame Imapala's Solitude Is Bliss (listen and ignore the horrible background image HERE)

There's a party in my head
and no one is invited.

p.p.s. Pigeonhole's new season pretties rock my socks.

Blogland Adventures Volume II

I found this beautiful image on the interwebs the other day... I cant remember which blog, but the picture is on the image sharing site photobucket.

I must do this to some of my photos, I'm sure it would make them automatically look cooler.

xo Lauren

My other Passion

...is studying architecture at uwa in perth, and i've just submitted my favourite work to date, and because i'm so very proud of it, i'm going to show you all, even though it has nothing to do with osier. it's still creativity right?

so yes, this is my album design for my computer based digital design unit. all images are either drawn in AutoCAD and rendered in Illustrator, photographs taken of a laneway near st georges in perth's cbd, or scanned hand drawn text. i'd love to hear your comments if you have the time.

- lauren (p.s. it took me 14 hrs from photography to final print)

click on the images to see them larger and in full detail

front cover as part of a trifold sleeve insert:

trifold sleeve other side:
disk and behind disk (yes, they line up and the rat is hidden until you take out the disk):

and the back cover with fictional song titles and copyright script:

i think it'd be really fun to do this design for a real band... any takers? ;p