Your babies are senior to my babies :P, I got mine in june or july, I think.

Chyeahhhhhh :), how long have you had 'em for? that'd be sweet :)

All thats changed is I've gotten taller, and gained facial hair and DREADS :D

Yeah, during the day was crazy, I should of wore shorts! my one regret haha. I'll let this one slip but next time you think you vaguely recognize me, say something. Same goes for me. Last time I saw you was probably Marondah festival years ago!

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Gah! I saw you sitting up on the hill to the right of the stage, then you walked past me while I was lining up to buy water... purple tie dye.. pfft hippie :p

Were you at tool last night... I thought I saw you but I haven't seen you in so long I wasn't sure if it was actually you or not.

weird... my reply seems to have disappeared :S oh well.. i said something like: haha aw ok :( yeah i'll see you there tomorrow. should be good :)

only 1 more sleep :)

oh. they must have sold the last tickets after that email went out :(

so how was rainbow? shpongle? :)

hmhm, well i wonder how you're surviving the festival experience. i wonder what sort of food they have there. i wouldn't be surprised if you were vegetarian or vegan? read on your devart you were planning on 'experimenting'.... you're crazy mannn! happy tripping i hope xD there's talk of going to confest in april. i don't know if i could stand a week of naked hippies, bush fires, salad and hand drumming, some bands would be nice. i'll go if it ends up happening. festivals sound like good fun anyway, good experience. what's red moon like/what's so shitty about it? all i know is it's a metal bar. i met a guy once who claimed to own a metal bar, he was some young blonde guy... i assumed he meant red moon. not sure i believed him at the time. maybe i'll check it out one day. maybe. anyways, hurry up and come home soon kk?

yeah dammit i'm jealous, i want to go wandering around and stuff hehe :( yeah i heard about alex being there, that will be awesome. i'm seeing his exhibition and live painting in melbourne on the 29th anyway though so at least i'm not missing out altogether :) tool tickets were hard to get, they sold out in about 2 minutes so i had to go on ebay and pay extra :( how about you?

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Last rec's these are personal favorites of mine ROME-dark folk/martial, Karjalan sissit-martial industrial, dark ambient,. So if you like any of the bands I've rec'd you I'm more then happy to help you with more or if you just want to browse yourself good ahead

As for Doom you should look further into Anathema they are a very good band and I recommend their album a fine day to exit. Hooded menace great doom/death, black autumn Doom/black check out rivers of dead leaves, Deinonychus- Doom/black,Longing For Dawn-funeral doom/ambient and colosseum-funeral doom

Austere is more depressive black metal same with Miserere its depressive/atmosphere. Depressive ranges from many different area's so I'll give you a few from that sub genre and I'll go from there. Cold body radiation-depressive blackmetal/shoeglaze Hamleypa-pagan atmosphere bm Vergänglichkeit-depressive/raw bm Balnasar-depressive/atmo bm I give you more black metal after you listen to those Vergang is a hard find but well worth tracking it down

It can be to someone looking for music is there anything you are looking for?

have fun at snake-fest or whatever xD just wanted to say bye before you left, i got home a little while ago... i'll write you while you're away ^_^ bye bye!

that sounds like a good plan :) i haven't been to rainbow before but i went to earthcore a few years ago and did as you suggested... got into a good state of mind ;) and wandered around. everyone there was really open and friendly so it was easy enough to do. lots to see and explore too at those festivals :) yup you'll enjoy shpongle if you like their music, especially if you really like their more recent stuff. their older stuff wouldn't really suit a live band performance so much, so they mainly play things off their more recent album/s. I love their music too, one of my all-time favourites :)

ahh lucky. wish i was going but i didn't know anyone going this year. oh ok well yeah they were good live, and i'm usually pretty fussy about that kind of thing :) maybe your friend just didn't like their music?

Occasionally. I'm usually pretty respectful. No one has really made too much fuss about it to my face.

6'5". Sometimes more. Sometimes less.

Is that so? We should stand back to back or something... i dunno. Lol.

yeah shpongle was awesome :) really good show. ah ok are you going to rainbow? wish i was going

lolol clubbing, me? methinks you would have to drag me. i haven't heard of the black market, it sounds like quite the spectacle. northcote is miles away from them but nice to know, goths are pretty awesome and all.. there's like 100 black markets on facebook. you're just full of surprises, camping, arts and crafts, pokemon and now clubbing? what's next?

Hey, welcome back. it's ok, i got what you were saying originally about the art and stuff, i think i went off on a tangent with other ideas about stereotyping... i'll stop frustrating you with it! coincidentally a few friends were talking about that market idea and going up to st andrews selling random art and having people playing music next to their stall. probably unlikely since none of them have cars. and i love going out, i think i was just in a pissy mood. sometimes i just end up saying no due to my mind making some excuses which is what sucks. i don't know it's fucked, but yea, glad to hear you had fun hollie!

actually my friends went to some d&d night, i was going with them but i ended up coming home... i got invited to a 21st too but i said no. i'm really not a group/party person. and it sucks >.>

"so what kind of music do you like?" "EVERYTHING =D!" those kinds of people? don't think i've ever been camping before except in the backyard when i was younger (probly doesn't count). where you going to go? there must be lots of bush/country out there huh? fantasy... final fantasy =p?

my folks went to cowes/philip island and brought me back some hippie clothes and a seashell ;D. what's wrong with COD?? is it the kids who mic spam, or the general frustration that game causes? wouldn't have picked you for a gamer either xD. i'm mostly playing starcraft 2 these days - a real man's game ^^ reading is great btw, nice work.

i can see what you mean, how maybe it could be seen as contrived or disingenuous. really, what are we talking about though? whether someone is a poseur or not? if it's a work that you did then it will of course have some personal meaning but you can't control how somebody interprets it or whether they'll respond to it emotionally at all. i'm sure there are artists/bands out there who can pull stuff out of their ass no matter what mood they are in, actually this reminds me of something i was talking about with friends before. i just love browsing up- and-coming DSBM bands' myspace profiles, how they make split albums with their friends like "3 days of suicidal hatred!" and you can find pictures of them with their girlfriends with really fucked captions like "i'll never let you go!" or something, to make it relative ~

nice to 'meet' you too hollie. that's not so far away, only a couple of train rides. at least we live in the same city. what about if you're bored and you're scribbling something out, or if you're not in a particular state and end up with something you like? do you mean you dismiss that sort of work? "Do you have to be depressed to write a sad song? Do you have to be in love to write a love song? Is a song better when it really happened to you?" nothing much planned for the moment. my parents are away on vacation so the house is extremely quiet. i'll probs play some games, guitar, music. stare into empty space on the verandah for a while enjoying the rain ^^ sorry for the belated response... what are ya reading?

that's interesting, how drawing can be like a stream of consciousness for you. do you think you produce some of your best works that way, in that mode? what you said about being as diverse as possible i agree with, although it took me a long time to understand, mostly in regards to music. it's nice to have an escape like that. never been to new zealand but i've heard good things. i'm from ormond, near caulfield. yourself? my name's ben by the way ^_^ i'll take a wild guess and say your name is hollie ? hollie the horrible? any plans for this evening?

indeed, i enjoyed our talk too. there are some really twisted images here, in your sketches. my friend used to paint a bit and said it was really good for getting ideas out of his head, like if something was pissing him off he could paint the emotions or the situation and get a new perspective on it, in third person, looking on at what was happening. so for some reason i was reminded me of that. do you draw your ideas like that or are they mostly expressive? if that makes sense.. also your photos are great, i especially like the urban ones, and the village is cool too. i think i just found a car in that photo, otherwise it looks pretty much as the title suggests, a medieval peasant village at dusk. thanks for showing me. it's pretty humid out, nice night for a walk ^_^

thanks a lot for your suggestions, i'll see how it sounds slowed down some. i don't know why i'm self promoting though, apologies for spamming you with crap ! it's actually really amateurish and i should probably keep it to myself until it's somewhat finished, but thanks for the kind words, i did ask for your thoughts. anyhow, i'd love to check out your art some time too. have a good night!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ctbtbmox83ieu2e & http://www.mediafire.com/?r7m55fwpb0jx7j3 ~ some stuff i'm kind of working on, i would be interested to hear your opinion !

you should defs take your cousin up on the offer, if travelling to the city isn't too out of the way. i did a bar course a while ago, i should probably try use that some time soon to find a job but bar work is great, especially if you like to travel. really, breaking up over the hours? you still have the afternoon free i think, as a baker. i suppose it could interfere if she worked during the day. i've never really tried any crafts. i've played guitar on and off for like 8 years and i was practicing heaps last year so i could start busking but i got too burnt out, i was playing stuff that was probably a bit too much to learn in a year's time. so nowadays i've pretty much regressed to playing black metal riffs. if art is what you're keen on and if it's what you're passionate about i think you should definitely give that a strong go, although the life of an artist is not pretty..!

what a crazy dude... i love how bad his tattoos are. sounds like a totally depraved stage show. sounds like i'm in a similar situation to you. finished school all naive thinking i'd just walk into some place and they'd give me a job. it's really fucked. you need to 'know' someone to get anywhere and i've got a pretty small, close group of friends. most of them got jobs through family etc. i've tried studying, did a music course last year, fucking hated it. i've considered apprenticeships, did some trials with local bakeries but i wasn't really up to selling my soul for shit all money. what can ya do? just gotta keep trying i guess.

awesome, i'm gonna go listen now xD what can I say, i'm a bit of a lifelover fan boy. nice to hear you like them too, it'd be really great to see them but i don't think that'll happen in the near future unless i traveled to sweden.. also unlikely! i'm not going to see Tool, but tickets must have been hell expensive for that show. what's GG Allin like by the way? If Rodney Rude was in a punk band ?

I'm from melbz. what about you? Looks like you're seeing Tool soon so I'm guessing melbourne too? Do you know this song by some aussie artist maybe called 'Summer Days' or something..? it's about going to a festival, i used to hear it on triple J but I forgot the name of it.

Hey your hair is fucking awesome, and bethlehem is great. I don't know much about aussie hip hop but cool!

Oh sweet, I'll check it out for sure :), what uni are you going to be studying at? Thats a stroke of good luck then! English, Media, Photography, History, Sociology. And I finished completed a vet course for music industry during year 11. Gonna have so much work to do :\ what subjects are you doing btw?

I'd like to see some again sometime :) What're you doing next year(this year I suppose) that gives you access to a dark room? I have one at my house, you jelly? I can only hope I do well I suppose.

Oh, that sucks... thats how we bonded! :(. Are you still doing your photography and your 'scribbles'? Well, they do have an incredibly beautiful country side, thank you lord of the rings :P Umm, I wish... I'm a young-en remember? Got year 12 and I'm done, I'm scared its going to go to quickly, which it probably will. These holidays are already half done and I've done nothing yet eeeep. you finished school yet?

I've missed talking to you, occasionally. Yeah, facebooks lame as shit, but I have 0 life, so it stays. I personally would rather Aus over NZ though, they get shit all international bands there, and it's full of kiwis :p Oh, reclusive little holly :P (don't take offense to that, sounds really dickish) Yeah have not been doing anything at all, like usual. Unsuccessfully looking for work and such. I've been well otherwise, you? Still in love with clowns? :)

cant wait my dear x

Holly crap, excuse the bad pun... But shit, haven't heard of or seen you in forever. whats up?

yay! sounds like a plan, i deff need locals for smoke hook ups. ps, so excited to go draining with franz.

sure have! i went out on the train to a suburb and went to some shop that sold band merch, but this was a number of years ago so you should give me details / names of shops! :)