Ce Matin La

I went to coachella and all I screamed at was...

2010-05-03T23:12:00.000-07:00

ALEXANDER WANG

He just wants to be a single lady

2010-03-31T19:14:00.001-07:00

Chatroutlette Movie

2010-02-24T15:05:00.000-08:00

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

OPENING CEREMONY KIRSTEN DUNST & JASON SCHWARTZMAN

2010-02-12T16:45:00.000-08:00

OC. I LOVE THEE

non plus one final from Tracy ANTONOPOULOS on Vimeo.

TEAM TAVI

2010-02-08T19:43:00.000-08:00

Oh Tavi....

Don't worry what they say. Your bow is gorgeous and so are you. Yes, they (GRAZIA) should have totally asked to you to remove it if they were so inclined. But you are so small they were lucky a normal sized adult wasn't sitting where you were, they wouldn't have been able to see as good as they did anyway!

SKETCH FROM @SteffiSchuetze on twitter....

MORANGE

2010-01-21T02:58:00.001-08:00

M.A.C MORANGE... wearing it all weekend...

WHAT WOULD MIRO WEAR?

2010-01-13T19:32:00.000-08:00

... that is all you have to ask. My new style icon.

All from : http://ohmiroslavasmile.tumblr.com

My two loves music & fashion, or is it musicians & models?

2009-12-18T20:40:00.000-08:00

Thank you to Vogue US for this spread

LILO

2009-12-15T20:33:00.000-08:00

Why I Sometimes Wished I Lived In Melbourne....

2009-12-07T14:33:00.001-08:00

GENIUS LIKE THIS....

Baker D. Chirico pop-up shop @ 24 Crossley st in Melbourne, CBD

Thanks thedesignfiles.net for making me envious once again.

Billy Corgan

2009-10-28T22:12:00.001-07:00

Dear Billy Corgan,

We have had the same thoughts in the same week. Although yours are way more developed than mine you have pretty much written exactly what I was thinking!

http://www.everythingfromheretothere.com/2009/10/27/health-and-a-well-being/

Love Mel. x

P.S I doubt Billy's thoughts were spurred on by finishing the first season of Fringe. That's what brought it on for me. Definitely not as educated or well read. I just watch television.

She likes pineapples

2009-10-26T18:21:00.001-07:00

AMAZE

2009-10-25T19:41:00.000-07:00

From altamira

P.S my gallery opens in 1.5 weeks click here for info xx

HELLO

2009-09-25T18:46:00.001-07:00

OUTFIT...YES! (via @ stylesightings.com)

ALEXANDER WANG JACKET FROM SPRING/SUMMER 2010

EVEN KANYE HAS SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT OUR DUST STORMS....

2009-09-22T23:41:00.000-07:00

via wired.com via @waulok

FLAMING LIPS & KAREN O

2009-09-22T22:53:00.001-07:00

The Flaming Lips "I Can Be A Frog"

PUNISHERZ UPDATE

2009-09-11T01:28:00.000-07:00

So. It's been a while since there was any Punisherz news.

We had a rehearsal about 6 weeks ago in the gallery, the most echo-ridden room in the world. Our first in 18 months or so. It will probably be the last in the gallery though because i'm opening the gallery as a gallery in November. (I will have a blog for that so that's exciting!)

I wrote a song about fake lesbians and how much I hate them. This was inspired after I had been to Lily Allen the night before and was standing with a group of non-disclosed Australian reality TV wannabes saying how much they wanted to "have sex with Lily".

$100000000000000000000 bucks they would run away from Lily if they had to do anything a true lesbian would do in the bedroom!

Kissing a girl doesnt make you a lesbian!!

Look, i'm not a lesbian - and I appreciate the gay community, but I hate fake lezo's who do it for attention ok!

So come to the next Punisherz show if there is one (maybe Boogie next year I hear) to see more of this fake lezo rant.

IT GIRL?

2009-08-18T16:35:00.001-07:00

Failed on the first question. What about you? Thanks refinery29

Charles Guislain

2009-08-12T19:52:00.000-07:00

To be so stylish & passionate about fashion @ 16. Charles, you'll have a line around 10 blocks for your first collection i'm sure.

NEED LOVE

2009-08-07T23:08:00.001-07:00

SHAME FOR NO ONE STOPPING ME ON THE STREET WHILST WEARING MY TAVI-TSHIRT...!

I have been following Tavi since the beginning of the year and I am constantly surprised and amused by her posts! I LOVE HER. www.tavi-thenewgirlintown.blogpsot.com

NOW I JUST NEED TO BUY THIS ISSUE OF LOVE!

Not allowed.

2009-08-05T19:32:00.000-07:00

Blatant rip offs of my fave boots.

YUCK

Floria Sigismondi

2009-08-04T22:14:00.000-07:00

If you know me, you know that I LOVE Floria Sigismondi. Today while I was ordering some of her books for my gallery I saw this video for the first time. I'm a few months too late, but it's absolutely exquisite all the same.

Floria teamed up with M.A.C once again, this time for their Hello Kitty collection.

I need to meet this woman. Pronto.

One more

2009-08-02T01:57:00.001-07:00

RAINBOWGOLD by meltish featuring Sergio Rossi shoes

Couldnt help myself.

2009-08-02T01:29:00.001-07:00

Sorry.

DAY-TO-DAY by meltish featuring Rick Owens

J'dore Polyvore...

2009-08-02T01:08:00.000-07:00

Polyvore = My new toy!

I can't figure out how to upload my own images onto polyvore, plus it takes up too much time taking photos of my actual outfits. So here are some close interpretations on my splendour outfits.

DAY 1.

Splendour Outfit Day 1 by meltish featuring Rick Owens

No I don't own the See By Chloe Buckle/Lace Up Boots but now that I have found you dear boots, please brace yourself for ownership.

DAY 2.

Splendour Outfit Day 2 by meltish featuring Hermes bracelets

My version of the white lace body con was $50 (& hemmed for length) from C's flash back.

I DIE

2009-08-01T23:29:00.000-07:00

Alexander Wang...

I LOVE YOU!

UPDATE: I THINK I WANT IT IN THIS COLOUR INSTEAD

I should post some Splendour outfit pix soon too.

SYDNEY I LOVE YOU!

2009-07-21T16:22:00.000-07:00

Blue Skies & a warm day! It's meant to be winter!

eat that everyone else.

JUST SO YOU CAN LEARN FROM ME....

2009-07-11T01:15:00.000-07:00

Earlier this year I was in NYC for a while, and I sublet an apartment via Craigslist on the cnr of Thompson and Prince. It was perfect for my stay! It was 1 o f about 5 apartments I looked at and I met the guy who was leasing it and he was kind and nice & going to volunteer in Africa, which is why he was subletting.

ANYWAY. All went well during the stay, there were a few problems and each time there was (like the noisy heater) I rung him or emailed him straight away and let him know. So we agreed that I would give him a deposit for my stay and get it returned when I handed back the keys.

Those of you who know me, know that my house is my home, and I take the best care of my things and my house, and I did the exact same for his place.

The day I returned from Australia he wrote me: "We have a problem, yesterday in the afternoon I went to take a shower and while the water was running, the water was not draining from the tub, did this happen before, was it severely clogged, because when I left it I had just snaked it myself, there is still water in the tub and its not draining there is clumps of stuff coming out of the drain... kinda gross, I had to call the plumber, if this is a building problem then we are good, but if this is something I have to pay for, if the plumber deems it recent, then i will have to take it out of your deposit. I will know by tomorrow morning"

To cut a LONG story short we exchanged a few emails and phone calls and he was constantly brushing me off. FINALLY after 3 months, I have sent him this email in hope to appeal to hopefully a human being inside of him:

Dear XXXXX,

I am just writing to say how disappointed I am with your lack of communication and fairness in the situation of holding my deposit for subletting your apartment in April 2009 of this year. I thought you were a very nice and kind person when we met, and we also had good communication throughout my stay as I told you about ANY problem I had in your apartment at the time of the problem’s occurrence. I took utmost care of your place as if it were my own and would have told you straight away if the drain had been a problem, and it was not.

The last communication we had was about 4 weeks ago on the phone and at that time you told me your were in the midst of “drafting an email to me to tell me what has happened.” In any situation, personal or business I think waiting 4 weeks patiently for a legitimate reason as to why my $1050USD has been withheld from me is a fair enough time to wait!

I have had this distinct situation investigated to see what rights I have and in each case have been told it is a “building problem and responsibility, not the person who has sub-letted the apartment”. This is because its part of the building, and a problem based on age and time, something that I cannot be held responsible for. In most cases I was also told the super would take care of it as part of your own building costs as well!

In finding this information out and going back on my original emails to you when you claimed that you would hold on to my deposit because of the drainage problem, I replied back and was very fair in saying that “I would pay my portion of drain receipt for the amount of time I had been staying in your apartment divided by the entire time you had been there” – therefore splitting the costs. I shouldn’t even have to offer to do this, but you still have not responded at all to this offer.

If you have gone and spent my money I would rather you just tell me, than give me an absolute non-reason to hold my deposit.

I really misjudged this entire situation and you have really made me lose my trust and faith in humanity and I would not have expected this from a person who was going to volunteer in Africa.

I would appreciate a response within a week of this email, if not I will continue to follow up until I have heard your reasoning as I am not an unreasonable person.

Kind Regards,

Mel

----------

Look if I wanted to be a total bitch which I could be, I would post his name everywhere and hand out his twitter, blog, facebook & myspace details for everyone to stalk and de-face but i'm not going to do that. I just want people to be aware of what can happen. Here are some easy guidlines for craigslist.

1. USE CRAIGSLIST - IT IS AN AWESOME TOOL JUST BEWARE
2. STAY WITH A FRIEND OR @ A HOTEL WHILST LOOKING FOR A PLACE OFF CRAIGSLIST FIRST SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY MEET THE PERSON AND GO CHECK THE PLACE OUT!!!!
3. GET THE KEYS FIRST AND EXCHANGE CASH ON THE SPOT IF POSSIBLE
4. IF A DEPOSIT IS DISCUSSED TRY PUT IT IN A TRUST ACCOUNT NOT THEIR ACCOUNT!
5. ALWAYS HAVE GOOD COMMUNICATION WITH EACH OTHER
6. JUST BE A REAL GENUINE PERSON NOT A CUNT. (both parties)

thank you xxx

ORDINARY

2009-06-24T19:09:00.000-07:00

From the forthcoming album Drown In Colour, Red Riders with the absolutely perfect tune for any day (rain, hail, shine), Ordinary.

2009-06-23T19:15:00.000-07:00

In my dreams I am SO happy.

It's On With Alexa Chung!

2009-06-20T00:55:00.001-07:00

Dear MTV AUSTRALIA,

Since you play all the other shit MTV US feeds you, could you also please make sure to program It's On With Alexa Chung. I can only watch highlights online.

Thank you. x

P.S Pippet wants more Alexa too!

MASTERCHEF!

2009-06-17T04:12:00.000-07:00

After watching Masterchef tonight I got a real craving to make a little chocolate pudding thing, like the one they whipped up for the wedding.

Without really knowing a recipe (and masterchef doesn't go through the cooking stages in the show), I prayed that I would have everything I thought I needed in my house, as it is a cold rainy night and I didn't feel like venturing outside!

Anyway - So I looked.... and all I had was :
1. Wholemeal Flour
2. Less than a tablespoon of vegan butter
3. Cocoa
4. Vanilla Essence
5. 1 Egg
6. Sugar

So I shoved this all in a bowl and did my secret fork whisk

Put them into 2 x soya sauce dishes
Found 2 more secret ingredients in the freezer....

RASPBERRIES (zapped in the microwave for 30 seconds with sugar and vanilla essence)

ICE CREAM!

In 30 minutes I was plating up and spooning hot delicious chocolate, with sweet raspberries and ice cream into my mouth.

WOW. If you were my boyfriend you would love me right?

P.S I don't have a boyfriend, why not?

ummmm

2009-06-11T01:25:00.000-07:00

My friend sent me this link a couple of weeks ago....

A huge shriek of WTF was belted for this first 5 minutes, and then a HUGE SIGH of relief after I realised Chloe like what I was wearing....

Still. WTF???

EVEN IF I HAD A GUN I COULDN'T USE IT

2009-05-31T20:34:00.000-07:00

So en route to Brisbane this past weekend, Sydney airport security saw my UNEARTHEN necklace. I love this piece of jewellery and wear it every single day.

It was an unusually quiet Saturday afternoon at the aiport, so quiet that our original flight got cancelled and they put us on a later flight.

Anyway so security decided that I couldnt go on board with my necklace because it is in the "shape of a bullet". After trying to explain to them numerous times that it was infact an EMPTY SHELL CASING with Aqua Aura Quartz (very visable), they still wouldn't let me through with the necklace.

I had to check my handbag and put it through luggage! I don't know what they thought I could do with an empty shell-casing..... I've been through security airport check-points in LA, NYC, SYDNEY, MELBOURNE, SYDNEY again with it on and it doesnt even beep through the metal detector!

Talk about security having MAJOR Saturday afternoon boredom, I guess everyone has to prove why they still exist in their jobs these days too....It was entirely frustrating, and even the check-in girl at VIRGIN said that they must have been bored that day for me to have to check it in!!

P.S Got back to Sydney through Brisbane security FINE with it on.

BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS

2009-05-21T19:31:00.000-07:00

Two of my bands had new photos done recently. Here are my favourites!

Photo by David Shrimpton

Photo by Andrew Gunsberg

Red Riders (1st picture) new album 'Drown In Colour' out July 10.
www.myspace.com/redridersmusic
BMK (2nd picture) new EP out real soon. Reallll soon.
www.myspace.com/bridgemarykiss

WANTED

2009-05-21T19:16:00.001-07:00

Since I cannot afford many of the things I want at the moment i'm just going to collect them all in my blog.

RICK OWENS LEATHER JACKET.

FUR GIRL BY MARK RYDEN.

AN OFFICE CHAIR THAT DOESN'T GIVE ME A BACK ACHE, WHILST ALSO LOOKING GOOD

ROB.

Airports = insignificance....

2009-03-12T11:54:00.000-07:00

So i'm travelling for work at the moment, and in the past few weeks spent alot of time in airports. They suck, and I have refused to go into the lounges....it's more interesting people watching out here in the wild.

I dont know about you, but in an airport I think I feel like the most insignificant person in the world. Once you check in you go through the cog wheels of security and a motion wherby everyone is stripped down to your core (not literally, although shoes and jackets come off). Everyone has to do this, no one is immune. I take one look around and everyone seems to have the same feeling, face, emotion.

Is this where everyone enters the same playing field - at the security check point?

...Not that i'm a person of significance to begin with, but I guess what i'm trying to say is that I just feel like one tiny piece in this huge puzzle that makes up the world. I hate that. I like to feel like i'm at least trying to do something.

I'm collecting my thoughts for cultural common denominators.... stay tuned.

x

Broken Heart Syndrome

2008-12-29T04:27:00.000-08:00

Again. It's been a while, a long while. But I come back with a new theory, that of how emotional & mental pain can be manifested in and actually cause physical pain, without you even knowing it at the time.

COSTOCHONDRITIS

"Costochondritis is a condition that causes chest pain due to inflammation of the cartilage and bones in the chest wall. Also called Tietze's Syndrome, costochondritis occurs when there is inflammation at the junction of the rib bone and breastbone (sternum). At this junction, there is cartilage joining these bones. This cartilage can become irritated and inflamed. Depending on the extent of the inflammation, costochondritis can be quite painful.

What causes costochondritis?

It is often difficult to indentify a single cause of costochondritis."

If you get costochondritis, you feel like you're having an asthma attack. You can hardly breathe.... it's pretty vague how this can come on (bad cold, flu, injury so they say) but one thing is certain it's "common in young adults".

Why would healthy strong young adults be afflicted to this pain? Especially when they've had no cold, no injury nothing full-on to cause your cartilage become inflamed?

What if the only reason plausible would be that of a broken heart?

And here rests the crux of my theory - that insanely painful chest pain that makes it hard for you to breathe and move could be really the 'broken heart syndrome'. It's not too hard to visualise your poor wreck of heart strangled blue trying to burst out of it seams and thud, pound, drop so hard that it inflames your chest wall. A physical reaction to emotions you've overcome - or pressed to face, your body crying out instead of your eyes and your mind - because they're already done. It's your body's final release.

Is there a study? I don't know... but its just a thought. A small, personal theory (and i know we all have our own personal theories on something) that i though I'd like to share with anyone else out there who knows or might have a sneaking suspicion that your body, spirit and mind are truly at one.

jadeywood

2008-05-01T22:43:00.000-07:00

Well it's been ages since I posted..... there's a whole gap in my life that I will forget because I forgot to put in on this page. This is something I definitely do not want to forget though....

Last week Jade and I were @ Kitson and Heidi from the Hills was there... you can see jade in the background. Her excitement was so entertaining!! I didn't even know who she was.

Small asian girl, illegal Robertson Blvd Park, Hollywood reality starlet + Kitson = Hilarious afternoon.

fruit. baguettes.pasta

2007-10-03T16:50:00.000-07:00

Im sorry there are no photos to accompany this blog. So i'll make it as un-text heavy as possible, when it's all I have to work with.

Went to Parklife on Sunday. For the first two hours I was hating on absolutely everything. That is until DUCKPOND arrived and saved us. Us I mean Jade and I. Claire was working. So Ducky arrived with Adam Freeland and took us backstage where i proceeded to drink a bottle of vodka out of adam's rider. It was tasty.

I poked some girls boobs. They were out there, and waiting to be poked. I also told some girl with fluro thongs that she was wrong. She almost punched me. The whole crowed looked like a highlighter spewed on them. Wait I only mean 3/4 of the crowd. there were some of us in blacks. Supre should have just set up a festival stall and pulled in some cash. they would have made loads, because the fluro kids just didnt know where to stop. You could have sold them knickers and they would have worn them.

Anyway - I dont think I saw anyone play. Maybe like 1 justice song, and that's it. Besides dancing to Adam.

Left Parklife and went to Kirsty's and ate all of her Pizza (or was that Karen's? Sorry love) and passed out on the couch.

What else did I want to say on this blog?

Oh yeah. Im deleting facebook today, it so inpersonal and boring. Myspace has so much more personality and I hate to use the word, p-zazz...... Facebook is what's scares me about society. Mediocrity. A bunch of people who conform to what is put out in front of them with extra little add-ons or "applications" to try and differentiate who they are. Well guess what, applications don't show personality. To rise above mediocrity you've got to step outside the square and create something different, unique and personal - might that be in life OR online. At least you can do all of that in other online environments, and hopefully in your everyday life.

So fuck you facebook. And fuck everyone on it.

Mercy Arms - Kept Low Video

2007-09-24T00:13:00.000-07:00

What an amazing song, what a brilliant video.

hello! fatigue!!

2007-08-12T19:00:00.000-07:00

Well it's been a long long while... between blogs, and it's been so busy that I was sick with fatigue. Justine suggested we should go to the hospital for 'exhaustion'. How do they actually treat you? I wonder what they gave Lindsay and the rest of them when their eyes were falling out of their heads from too much work and party? All i needed was sleep and rest and doing nothing. Even when you go on holiday, you're still doing stuff aren't you?

Last weekend was Splendour In The Grass. It was pretty large. Our house consisted of Me, Garth, Buzz, Cara, Jimmy, Jade, Karina, Claire & Martine. I'd link all their facebook's and myspaces but people have so many damn profiles these days, its like an ego-field waiting to burst. Don't get me wrong - my wardrobe is slowing building it's own too.... www.stylemob.com(.)

Anyway! So byron was hot. Let's make a list... it's always easier. Sorry if this list isn't as entertaining as yumi's, but really above anything this blog is for me so that when i'm old and crusty I can remember what I used to get up to.... so let's hope the hackers who got into the UN website this morning don't delete the blogs on blogger too.

1. I crashed James' hire car into a pole. Reversing with Jade - not high speeds, but slow reversing.... most expensive pizza I ever went to pick up.
2. Laying on a tarp in the backyard in byron soaking in sun and vodka is good.
3. Laying in a heated baby pool soaking in sun and mango daquari's is also good.
4. Nothing can beat being with the people you love and new friends are for giving shit to. (Mike mainly).
5. Mike and Glen should get married.
6. Mike DID NOT punish the punisherz. We punished him.
7. Kirsty and I are wreckless blair witch hunters, roaming in pitch darkness catching magical shuttles to festivals.
8. It was freezing at night time - thanks for the tights yaya.
9. Bloc Party were incredible.
10. If you stand sidestage for arctic monkeys you will get jewellery thrown at you, which I will keep with no remorse.
11. After party was too crowded, and i was too smashed.
12. No pashes for me at splendour ... hmm.
13. Claire you cannot take the world HILARIOUS to your vo-cab. It's just wrong. Leave it alone.
14. Bacon and egg rolls with tomato sauce and hot chips inside do wonders for your hangovers (and thighs).

Well that's it for me now. This week off to melbourne for the levity launch over there with our 2nd artist MERCY ARMS I love these boys so so much.... and then off to Perth for the weekend to see ma & pa.

P.S Rumors are true I have a facebook, but i'm only accepting those of the male gender. Don't ask me why - I didnt want to join in the first place.

confidential....

2007-06-25T16:43:00.000-07:00

OH I LOVE THE MEDIA. CUT OFF YOUR HANDS IN THE GOSSIP SECTION.

TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE FUN.

go go go no stop!

2007-06-25T04:35:00.000-07:00

Well.

It's been a long long while.

What's been going on?

Red Riders sold out sydney + Melbourne.
Jade got crushed by moshing retards @ the melbourne show.

Levity (check out the myspace) has been going nuts. Cut Off Your Hands have been amazing..... they've been in Australia touring with Young and Restless. We shot the clip to 'Still Fond' on friday. I never got sick of the song... even though we heard it about 100 times.

The launch party for Levity is tomorrow night - the boys will be playing, and im in guest list hell. Again.

Not such a good blog, but im tired, exhausted and need to sleep!

OH - also went to the hunter last weekend for Sal's birthday... we got loaded on the wine tour on Saturday, that was fun. The whole weekend was completely surreal, for many reasons - and the landscape wasn't helping one bit. It was absolutely beautiful. I need to get to the country more often. Also bought a lot of wine I do not need. Actually I probably do need it. Now please!

(The cottage we stayed in @ the Hunter Valley! It was called the ROCK HOUSE! - perfect)

Before Good Charlotte

2007-05-11T07:35:00.000-07:00

... there was Beau & Mel. 9 years ago I was in a band with my friend Beau. Beau sent me a song we recorded at his house a couple of days ago and I heard it for the first time in 9 years. I had totally forgotten about this song, and my first reaction was - good charlotte before good charlotte!! AND GUESS WHAT ELSE - the song is called HATE PARADE. How emo!!! We were emo before emo! HA... im finding this all very hilarious, especially since we had Hate Parade before the Black Parade. So anyway, I thought id share me emoness 9 years ago to everyone. Yes the song is rough, yes I can't sing - but hell if t here is a band out there who wants to re-record it properly and make it a hit, get in touch with me. HA - HA - HA.

So here is ..... BEAU & MEL - HATE PARADE. Enjoy it or enjoying laughing at my expense either way, i'm happy.

Beau & Mel : Hate Parade MP3

P.S when I told Jade this story, she asked me if I also had a blonde streak through my hair at the time. The answer to that was yes - in my fringe. And No we didn't have the term emo back then.

When A Fuck head reigns...

2007-04-27T09:28:00.000-07:00

You realise he knows nothing about the world
He has alot to learn.
That you are the stupid bitch left carrrying the presents (to him).
But in pride you are taking them in care of someone else. (much more special than you will ever be)
You have had one of the best nights of your life.
He is doesn't know anything.
Fuck
wit
go
home
I had a fabulous night without you.
BABE.

I love
Danny
Miami HOrror
Van She Tech
Ash La Rouge
. Some of the boys who made the night incredible.
And Danny's dad provided alot of entertainment. Loved you too Steve.

Twice with boys, always with silverchair

2007-04-03T04:42:00.000-07:00

So last Friday was the launch of the Silverchair album. It's hard enough having two close friends who work so closely with the guys, and handling my teenage-infatuation with the band. I must always try and remain cool at all times, even when they're talking about what they just did with them today, last night, in LA.

Anyway, so Friday, I lost it. I always lose it when I watch Silverchair. For me it's the same feeling as when you are kissing a guy and it's so intense you want to cry. That's only happened to me on two seperate occassions with guys, but always with Silverchair. I love them so much I cry. Quite embarrassing, but i'm putting it out there. Justine had to stand there with me, while I teared up 4 times during the set. I'm sorry........

I'm watching youuuu watch over meeeeeee......

V festival was on saturday, it was ok. I think I got too excited about the lineup, and it just didn't live up to standard. The rapture were pretty good, but the girl pushing her vagina all over Garth and I was not. Maybe I was just not into it that day, and just so my dad knows... SORRY DAD - BECK, was BORING & PREDICTABLE, but on the UPSIDE - You could have been one of the PET SHOP BOYS, or the PIXIES! hahaha..... you used to like that pet shop boys song? Didn't you. I don't know, i forget which one it was.

Anyway, I heard Claire had a good time, something about a first aid officer, police man and some friends, and 'blue light disco, circa 1996'. Wish I was there.... !!!

Speaking of father, Ray Manzerek was in town this week. -from the Doors. I missed his afternoon tea celebration of the Doors best of release so I didnt get to meet him, i'm sorry for that, I wanted to get a photo with him for you!!!! :( But if it's any consolation he told Paolo Nutini he would play keys for him if he ever wanted. So i'll send you the Paolo Nutini record.

Paolo was suprisingly seductive on stage. We had him in the Live Lounge tonight.... if you like soulful, raspy, pop sung but a cute scottish lad - then get into this fella, he ticks all those boxes with a liquid gold pen. We talked about Funky Cigarettes (real ones), and it's my new favourite song to hoe-down too. YEEEHAAAA.... Joss Stone in the Live Lounge on thursday 11 piece band CANNOT WAIT. Post then. ta ta. xxx

P.S you catch watch our Kaiser Chiefs @ the Take 40 Live Lounge here. Was an awesome shoW!

Long time no post....

2007-03-28T21:02:00.000-07:00

Well that's because there's too much going on in little melly's life! All is good though, it's a good busy - and some interesting stuff has happened along the way.

A couple of weekends ago went to probably one of the most fun party's i've been to in a while. It was at McMasters, and there wasn't very many of us... but it was prefect. A slight drizzle, great music, fabulous company and loads of drinks, food and love. Thanks Ducky for thinking of us.... we had an awesome time.

I also bought 2 goldfish that weekend. Well 3, if you count the first one that died in the first 4 hours of me having him. They are called Moko (II) and Lily. Except I pretend that Moko number 1 never happened, what kind of mum am I ? Letting him die in the first 4 hours. I was devastated. Of course. They are really cute. Lily is fat, and moko is skinny. Much how I would describe me and my taste in men really.... hA! If you're wondering why I have Moko in a Ferrero Rocher chocolate box - it's because he gets sick every time i change the water, so I have to condition him until the water is right for him. Yeah i'm an over zealous mum, one night I made him sleep next to me in a noodle bowl. (COME ON HE WAS SICK!)

We had Kaiser Chiefs in the Take 40 Live Lounge last tuesday... it was an amazing gig. Once i've had some photos approved i'll show you what the set looked like. It was awesome ! You'll see the full gig on MTV soon... i got to interview the guys too... They hang out with their mums more than they hang out with Celebs. Their Celeb highlight was something about flea being naked.... hmmm you'll have to watch the interview to really find out what happened! HA!

Well V Festival is this weekend, as well as the Silverchair launch! I Can't wait for this one... should be v v v cool!!! Ya ya ya ya ya. Will post pictures. Love. xxxx

groupie stories 1.

2007-03-09T08:06:00.000-08:00

So...... i've stored a few groupie stories in my time... and seeing an old friend tonight reminded me of something that happened not too long ago, and i've decided to share these groupie stories, most of which are not me. But friends who are in the bands targeted by groupies. I have nothing against groupies, I hate that it comes with a negative connotation. Long live the groupie. But punishing groupies must die! Just like this next story....

Band Member = BM (Cool indie rock band not from Australia just finishing a tour here)
Groupie Slut = GS (annoying groupie)

So i'm chatting with BM and he was like oh nooooo save me... i'm like What what? GS approaches.
GS: Hi do you remember me?
BM: Yes.
GS: Why didn't you call me?
BM: ummmmm.......
GS: I'm sorry for what happened...
BM: It's ok....
GS : Ok then.....
Gs turns away..... BM gives me the rundown, turns out GS has spewed on him on a previous occassion after pashing him. Come on, at least it wasn't the other way around!!!!

GS returns.....has a conversation with BM which I don't listen too and he tells me we should move on. Yeah ok, sounds good to me. I get my friend to 'entertain' GS. Friend is very good at girls....... GS is very drunk.

After a brief interlude..... of normal happenings.

GS Returns (again) UGH!!!!!
GS: Why do you keep running away from me?
BM: um, because you said sorry, and I said it was ok and now I'm going to walk away.
GS: Shakes her head iin disgust with the best negative pouty look i have seen in ages.........

We walk away. I cannot stop laughing. If I had spewed on a guy and saw him, i Think i'd say sorry and not return./ Some girls just do not get it. Especially persistent groupie sluts. BYeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

P.S Mel's drunk and I have band rehearsal in a few hours. GREAT. Jade save me.

Dumpling hunting

2007-03-07T14:58:00.000-08:00

Thankgod the festival circuit has been extended this year! With Laneways now over... (such a festival junkie I had to go to Melbourne too) I was kinda sad. But I realised that Playground Weekender is on this weekend, which the PUNISHERZ are playing at, and V Festival is still to come. Also there is always the coachella dream again... maybe.

Melbourne was fun last week, got to hang out with Tommy who has just released his album. You can listen to the whole thing on their MYSPACE. The Punisherz will be supporting their album launch at Candy's on the 13th April. COME COME COME!!!!! It will be awesome, and you can get your dance on to Offcuts and the PUnisherz.

Melbourne seemed like a dumpling chase this time round... except we finally got to the dumpling house on my last day for lunch time! It was yummm.... thanks tommyghost. We also found some breakdancers in mall in the city late one night, whilst on the dumpling hunt. I ask them if I can take photo... they agree and I take video too!!

They give good headspin! Must have headache now!

Highlights of the melbourne laneways was st jeromes, danny, claire, the walkmen, tommy, duckpond, larry, tini, & meeting yean!

Hightlights of sydney were..... getting pissed on the balcony with Justine, perving on Lars from peter, bjorn and john, (although i'm a frontman's woman!~ ha), and the pizza.

Also you may or may not have heard about the Punisherz TOO MANY CUNTZ tour.... head to YUMI'S BLOG to find out where we'll be playing near you. There's HEAPS of dates.......
:P

ITS JUST A FUCKING BOAT!

2007-02-20T01:47:00.000-08:00

So my morning ritual is to wake up and open my front door, let some air in and breathe in the beautiful sydney harbour, bridge and opera house. Today it was totally obstructed by this fucking HUGGGGEEEEEEEE ship/boat WHATEVER. I thought cool... yeah that's cool. Then found out I had been sleeping under a a-hem ship for the past week, and realised this thing was worth 1 billion dollars and people pay 28k-250k to be on board, go around the world, something.

There is traffic everywhere, cars can't move, James is stuck on darlinghurst road, he can't get home. Cars are bumper to bumper. Planes, helicopters, noisy things you name it. I tried to walk (against the grain) to booty camp (yes getting fit!) and people were taking up the ENTIRE foot path. I had to walk on the road. This was from 7 AM this morning till... what's the time now? 9pm... GREAT. I have two hours left of this shit... people will be waving the thing goodbye.

I even found a chick with a camera snooping pictures of it from MY BALCONY! RUDE! I asked her what she was doing (this is a private building) and she said she was from THE AUSTRALIAN. Tell ya what, if that photo is in the paper tomorrow, i'm going to be pissed off.

<<< thanks to Jai for his artistic skills on this one.... ANYWAY. BACK TO IT.

HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE LOCALS. Now I know how it feels to be a local when say, splendour in the grass is on in Byron. Poor locals, i have respect now...! SO EVERYONE PISS OFF. STOP BEEPING YOUR HORNS, STOP YELLING, ITS JUST A STUPID BOAT.

Im really surprised some commerical opportunity hasn't grabbed this either. We're talking tens of thousands of people in one harbour suburb here. Adam Zammit take note, next time the Queen Mary Two is in town, sell some sponsorship. Could I suggest the free condoms (like at the big day out?) the amount of pushy mothers with kids and prams was alarming, not to mention fucking RUDE. Learn to use contraception people. I also couldn't get through to anyone on my cell... had to redial a few times, "NETWORK BUSY". That's how many people are in my area, the towers coudln't even handle it!!! They had fire works @ 8.40pm... they were bigger than NYE almost.... there's certainly the same amount of people around as NYE.

I guess the one thing that did bring me back a little was on my way home from booty camp, whilst pushing through the crowd, and waiting politely for people to take their photos with the boat, I stopped for a family of 4 - pleasant family, not rude. Just there to take their kids to see the boat. I thought, that's what this is about, the poor little families who probably will never be able to afford to board a cruiser, let alone the BILLION DOLLAR one. And they all looked so proud standing in front of the boat, beaming, that they got to witness this spectacular thing. I'm only sorry to that family for how i'm feeling, but everyone else can fuck off....!!!!

Maybe i'm the one you should be feeling sorry for. Because maybe I should be sorry to EVERYONE here and all the families about how i'm feeling, instead of being the stupid jaded bitch who doesn't give a fuck.

My liver is a garbage bin...

2007-02-11T15:43:00.000-08:00

Well.... I think I can safely say, this has been the biggest party week of my life. Random. Fun. Lots of fun. Started in Perth. Jade, James, Nina, Sal & I ventured to HOT HOT HOT WA to see my mum, eat, and gather in some sun @ the beach and the Big Day out.

Saturday night we enjoyed the beach, and some home cookin' from Mum. She cooked up a beautiful feast of course, and some yum yum Red Snapper. It was delicious! After dinner we went to a venue called The Bakery, and saw diplo play. Karina, Zoe and little Bebo came along too.... it was amazing music, and good to catch up with friends from my hometown. Jade made a new friend, what a good dancer he was.

Sunday - BIG DAY OUT. After being sent on a wild goose chase around the backstage area, trying to get side of stage to see our buddies Spankrock, we actually got DENIED, side stage access.... So much for national triple A's. Punisherz gettin' denied from the side. It's a new punisherz song. Kav from Eskimo Joe went up after us, and got side of stage. It must have been because we were asian..... pfft!

Anyway, so we went to the bar, the only saviour from the heat. We sunk some bevies, and then went to the sound tower to watch My Chemical ROmance. Those guys were my favourite on tour I would say. Such a cool stage show, and plus kudos for standing the heat in those thick black clothes....... and makeup! I LOVE YOU GERARD!!!

Things are a bit blurry after this, mainly because it's been over a week since the fact, but it probably went something like.... more drinks, Peaches, Talking shit backstage... and then THE KILLERS. James, Sal and I ventured into punter land and found BEBO!!! it was so much fun, it was a huge sing-along and i've decided that I LOVE THE KILLERS in AUSTRALIAN accents. It was dope. i'm MR BRIGHTTTTEEEE - SIDE. Ok, you can't hear me sing it, but sing it in an Australian accent, it's cool.

After some more hanging b/s I went up to see THE PRESETS. They were the definite highlight of the day, even though I always get the feeling Kim wants to kill me, or that he hates me. Oh well. Anyway, we danced and sung all the hits...after hit after hit. Im so proud of these guys, they are totally rockin'. For their last track they got everyone side of stage ON THE STAGE and we got to dance with them for their last track!!! IT WAS SO MUCH FUN. Jim was trying to lead us in a breakdown section, but fucked it up 3 times - he pre-empted the buildup's wayyyy too soon. It was hilarious!!!!

After this, we pretty much bailed back to Maya's room to get ready for the after party. We were once again meant to be djing at the after party. So we got ready, and headed over. It was pretty fun. They had a jumping castle in the foyer, and I think I was the first to get on. Diplo was on the decks with guest apperances from Justice, Busy P & Pace & Chris from Spankers. All our new friends...... hi hi hi....! Look out for a Spankrock punisherz remix soon guyz. It's going to be HOT. Pretty much every band on the bill was at the last party of the tour, and it was rockin'. Although Jade and I Admitted we probably wouldn't know what Tool would look like. So I'm not sure if I saw them or not. Sorry. Gerard wasn't there either..... what a shame. For me.

At about 4am I decided I needed to go home, Duckpond was pretty sad at me for making that decision. Apparently i've lost all my bonus points. Who knows what I have to do to regain them. I love you Ducky, I really do, and im sorry I didn't stay for the swimming section.

Flew back to sydney on Monday, left my ipod on the plane, that's how tired/fucked up I still was. I'll pick it up next week when i go to Melbourne for Laneways! Yes. Laneeeewayyyssss.

Recovered (a little monday night) and tuesday arvo get a call from Mark who hAs JUST arrived in town! YAYyyyyyyy.... the party continues. So we head out to the gaslight, and the barbie mansion. Kids going nuts on a tuesday night. Drunkeness..... home at 3.30am ish.

photo: thecobrasnake.com

Wednesday - man.... i can't even remember.... what, um. OH! That's right, it was the myspace secret show party with mickey avalon. I was so excited, and Jade was too...... this is the guy we have been loving for a year now and we were about to see him for the first time. We worked our way up to the DJ booth for maximum visiual action. Mickey was pretty much getting raped on stage by 17 year old girls. It kinda made me sick. No-one gave him stage room, and the decks were getting knocked over, and just in general.... over-excited 17 year olds pretending to be trashed is not cool. Go shove a a reall cap up your skinny-boned asses, and you wouldn't be standing up my dears. You'd be on the floor. DICKHEADS.

photo: thecobrasnake.com

Here is my video from the myspace secret show.... Mickey Avalon call me MR RIGHTTTTT!!!!

Thursday - After a massive busy day, (rehearsal in the morning with steve - the punisherz were about to support mickey avalon with Steve filling in for James), press with Mark - I had a little nap on the couch at the RVCA house in bondi, before heading to Monster Children. It was a massive street party, every street art scenester, and person who probably didnt know what they were there for, was there. Doesn't matter though, it was fun - the cops came to break up the street party. I had to drag mark outta there before we got arressted. After a bit of street roaming, I decided we should go to the Oyster magazine party. It was pretty fun, lots of pretty ladies, and cute boys..... after picking up a small entourage we walked to health club and wamp wamp then ruby's. Tired times, I was feeling it went home pretty early. Back to work on friday.

photos: thecobrasnake.com

Friday - Went to work. I felt better than what I thought it would. Good girl for going home early on friday. Well kinda. Went to sound check @ 6pm @ the gaelic. Shwayze and mickey did their check's then we got on. Afro Dave was mixing, and we love that man.... thanks afro for making us sound mint. And thanks Steve for filling in for James. You were so spectacular... you even did the dances. LOVE YOU. It was such a fun amazing night. Shwayze was great. Mickey was like our dream come true, our performance had some good reception. So yeah, fun all up. We stayed for a while went upstairs for the after party and drunk MORE vodka.

Check out the punisherz with Steve - I Hate Work.... from Friday Night RVCA Clothing Party with Mickey Avalon & Shwayze.

Phew... this blog didnt even include the Saturday night fever. More to come..... peace. xx

The Scare

2007-01-30T18:32:00.000-08:00

The Scare are one of those bands, that when you see them live for the first time, you're not quite sure if your ears are left bleeding. After re-locating to the UK last year, the boys came back to Australia for a couple of shows, and to record their new album.

Upon their return I was lucky enough to catch one of the home-coming shows, and it was exhausting. The amount of energy Kiss and the guys output to the rest of the crowd is extremely intense. And you're not sure if you should be banging your head up against a wall to unleash the beast, that The Scare so uncanningly put out there. Just beaware that if you one day do see these guys live and end up spilling some blood, it's for a rewarding cause. The hardcore yet melodic soundscapes sound like the messy unfinished soundtrack, to a nightmare you can't see the end of. To some of you this may not seem that enticing, but to some of us it seems pretty darn appealing. The scare is not for all.

Check out their new film clip for 'If I'm Choking Make A Scene'. Guest Apperance, by yours truly. In one shot. Ha.

Sydney Big Day Out

2007-01-28T17:28:00.000-08:00

Fantastic Fun Day. ALL MY HIGHLIGHTS:

The Punisherz wearing asian flags for costumes. Digby the stand-in documentarian. Riding on the roof of Lilyworld's ice-cream truck, in sailor costumes. Jade making a home-made cymbol stand.Plastic Pineapple cups & Vodka. Making Ice-cream cookies in catering. Not Having the guts to ask a rockstar to join us for lunch. Lupe Fiasco. Throwbacks in the artist bar. Scamming new songs off Spankrock. Telling everyone we were there as artists... not for work. Not djing at the after party. Dancing at the after party to Diplo.

twas the day before christmas

2007-01-23T02:05:00.000-08:00

Well... ok so it's not christmas, it's the big day out (the eve of)... we had rehearsal last night. It was ok... we re-wrote the lyrics to pash a stranger. Now it's eat more asian. There's some nice words involved, yumi also has a spectacular new rock move to show you all during that song. James kinda does too, although, im not sure if it's new for him. He probably goes home and does it every night.

There's something wrong with my throat, im going to have to cancel all my interviews. (!ha - no but Lupe had to). I had an interview with Lupe scheduled for Monday, he had to cancel everyone's interview because he had something going on with his throat..... I was looking forward to that interview. Booo.

You know, it IS kinda like christmas because I got some sweet presents. First the BDO, 2nd this tour.... it's the sweetest thing of all.

Ohhhhh yah. The punisherz are besides themselves. We're also playing the BDO after party in Sydney and now Perth too (which is the last stop on the tour) it should be fun.

It's coming...

2007-01-15T20:44:00.000-08:00

The Punisherz on episode 11 of Pedestrian DVD... which I happen to love with all my heart. I have every one of them at home. If you don't have it. Get it. It's free.

SLUT

2007-01-11T19:22:00.001-08:00

Me. The World. You.

BURN THEM

2007-01-09T04:27:00.000-08:00

If you own a pair, I hope you bought them for burning.
Fire fire fire!!!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

The road trip

2007-01-06T18:00:00.000-08:00

So we decided to do the night drive from Sydney to Melbourne on the 27th December 2006. In tow, 3/4 of the Punisherz, James, Jade and Mel, and resident Punisherz groupie Cara. We got to the punisherz bus, and James had already gaffed our name all over it. Perfect.

James did the first stint of the 9 hour drive.... thank god for the tom tom, I think we would have got lost on the highway, it's really hard getting to Melbourne.

Jade took over after a while and we continued onto Melbourne. Thankgod for the Bloc Party CD... it kept us awake. As I did the last couple of hours driving into melbourne it was a relief to see the emerald city. We pulled in got a little lost and found our way to Yumi's Mum's house. We were there! YAY!

After a little rest, the next 3 days were going to be an unslaught of rehearsals. The Punisherz had not picked up their instruments in a month, and we were about to play the biggest gig of our career! FALLS FESTIVAL ON NEW YEARS EVE! Scared... mostly because we weren't sure if we could fill the hour set, we slogged our guts out in the crack den we came to love. Bakehouse rehearsal studio in Richmond. What a cool place.... I loved the courtyard filled with cute indie boys (sorry coudln't take any photos there, I had to keep cool you know). But here's jade in the courtyard full of untapped gold (cute indie band boys that I hadn't met yet).

After rehearsing, sleeping, eating and some shopping we were ready to drive to Lorne and play the new years eve show. James bought 120 blow up hello kitty dolls online (he wanted blow up vagina's but couldn't find any- they were going to shower down on the crowd during 'my cunt'), confetti cannons and Jade bought Thai Boxing costumes from her recent trip to Thailand. We were set.

I'm deliberating to tell you how the show went, because alot of it was captured by our insanely dedicated documentarian Bruce.... so it save all the juice, I don't think I will tell you what went down. Leave it to our ever-coming 666 part Punisherz series. There's 666 ep's right brucey? hahaha Joking. Anyway, we're playing a big Sydney show on the 12th January @ the Mandarin Club, this place is perfect for us! Come down if you're around. We're also playing the Sydney Big Day Out @ Lilyworld..... that is going to be fun fun fun!

Oh there's one part I forgot to tell you, that probably didn't make the doco. - We brought some of our tshirts to sell at the merch stand. Due to our late arrival it got prime placement on the merch board. (That's it in the corner on the door, not actually on the board at all..)

We sold 4. Maybe we need to assess this for next time.

Oh one more thing.... towards the end of our trip we based alot of our decisions by answering the question by thinking 'What would Pav do?'.... this was brought on by Sophie's Modular Sleeping bag. Do you have a photo Sophie? We need to show the world, or more so Pav, so he can start manufacturing them and selling them at festivals. It's an untapped resource.

It was the year that....

2006-12-20T14:58:00.000-08:00

I counted down in LA... randomly. Downtown party... to a party in the hills, to a party @ the roosevelt.

It was the year that I went on the Big Day Out Tour with work. Highlights included Soulwax, M.I.A, Cut Copy,The Mars Volta, Wolfmother.

It was the year that the punisherz put their money where their mouth was at started rehearsing. We played Dj sets first, but it was always about the band. Highlights were: Splendour In the Grass, First show Ever (sept 11), Going on tour with Jump 2 light Speed....

It was the year that I went back to the States for my birthday. LA & NYC. Highlights, Coachella, NYC with Dan (and all those parties). My friends.

It was the year Garth came home. So glad you're home.....xx

It was the year that I made friends with birds on my balcony.

It was the year that I resigned from my Job.

It was the year that I got an amazing fantastic new job, thanks to one of my best friends who I will always adore. G. XOXO

MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS...

Favourite Records/Albums

Mickey Avalon - Mickey Avalon

Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards

Wolf & Cub - Vessels

Wolf Parade - Apologies to The Queen Mary (was that this year or late last year?)

Best Gigs

Big Day Out tour 2006 - SOULWAX & The Mars Volta & M.I.A Gold Coast, Melbourne, Sydney, Perth - All awesome shows!

Kanye West - Opera house - April

Coachella 2006 - Bloc Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Phoenix, WOLFMOTHER, Mads, The Rakes. - End of April.

Cold War Kids - NYC Piano's - May

Spank Rock - Vice Party - Spectrum - June

Mercy Arms - Annandale - June

Splendour In the Grass - July

Punisherz 1st Ever show - September 11

Foo Fighters - Opera House - October

Wolfmother - Live At the Chapel - October 24

The Scare - Spectrum - November

Young & Restless - November...

Homebake - Silverchair! - December

Things I can't wait for in 2007

Punisherz counting in the new year @ Falls Festival

Punisherz first single

Young & Restless Album

More from the Cold War Kids

Someone to Bring Mickey Avalon to me, or Take me to him.

Bloc Party album, and tour.

I'm so scared.

2006-12-18T16:13:00.000-08:00

Yumi just told me Wolfmother finish @ 11.40pm on Nye. We're not on till 11.45, and there's no one else on another stage till midnight. So we're the sole band doing the countdown @ falls festival @ lorne on NYE. Someone save me, please tell me different, or get me reaaaaaallllll drunk. Please.

can someone please

2006-12-11T17:19:00.000-08:00

Buy me this dress for christmas?

I saw it ages ago and I thought it was so beautiful, and now i've seen it online again, and it's eating me away!

In other news, I went to Robbie Williams on Sunday night. You know what? That guy can have any ego he wants i've decided. To have THAT many people all in the palm of your hand is pretty amazing. Two of those stadium shows in every city, I was more amazed by the audience than him though. It was a good show, but the crowd was HUUUUGEEEEE... i don't know the exact numbers for Aussie Stadium, but fuck.

After party: not that great. It was a weird venue... the papers tipped the "secret location" to be Aussie John's 30 Million dollar pad in Point Piper, which I was really excited about, but it wasn't there at all. Same view, but closer, as in IN THE Opera house. Bennelong to be exact. The dance floor was crammed in a narrow space right next to the bar, so if you were waiting to be served you kinda had to dance at the same time, or get knocked over.

Robbie was a no show, his band rocked up, but seriously after a show like that I probably would want to take a few birds back to my room and just hang out there. I don't know what Robbie did though. ha. Most exciting part of the night was me finding a bottle of vodka and walking around with it for a while before it got taken off me.

There was a mix of celebs there, mostly ones from Australian soaps that I don't know their names of. A couple of girls who were dressed like they were from the 90's...as G and I discussed, they were definitely a Vice Don't, but when they started kissing each other, they turned into a Vice Do. I wish I took a photo. There was the drunk vegan (not G) who smashed a champers glass and didnt even notice, and ran to the toilet to have a little spew. Then there was me, vodka stealing non-celebrity spectacular.

vegemite = goodness....

2006-12-08T05:59:00.000-08:00

So yeah... friday night and I didnt want to go out. Last week was a bit too hectic, and I need to lay down. So I go to a screening of HAPPY FEET with G and get relaxed. Such a cute movie, pretty scary too. It made me want to tap dance all again. I guess when I think about it, It hasn't been that long since i've ripped out a tap routine. It was very cool.

So came home and decided its summer, its party season, im going out. So call Alana, and she's on her way to the Electric party, so I get my kit on and head on over. Its on the same street I live on practically and just a walk home if its devastating. Not that bad when we get there. Phil's band The Lost Gospel played, I told him the punisherz wrote a song about him.... "put your hands up if you're drunk". .... he said.... is it a shit song? And i said yeah... he said.... yeah I hate music... i was like cool we cant play music. So we got that settled. Then, The goons of doom were on, who the punisherz will eternally hate, just coz, and before they went on, they said to me. "This is going to sound really fucked up, because we're all on acid, I said.... you guys sound fucked up all the time... in a bad way!!". Good those fuckers. Goons of Doom. Whatever. You know what, I dont really hate you guys, you're kinda cute, but yeah, you're shitter than the punisherz. And in teh end, you got where you were because of who you know as well. SO we're all on the same kinda team. BUT collectivelly. The punisherz Do hate You. ok? You and TEENAGERS IN TOKYO.

Speaking of asian delights, G and i went asian food shopping before the movie. I was in a sweet mood, and bought all these sweet asian treats. I can't read asian and just looked a pictures, like usual. And anyway, I bought three things. One seaweed noodle item, one chocolate biscuit item, and one pineapple cake thing. I got into G's car and proceeded to taste each thing one by one... (and i nibble things i dont know about, i mean nibble miniscule proportions) and i HATED every single one of them. if any of you would like the left overs, feel free to come over and eat them. They are so sweet and disgusting. I cook good food. you dont need this shit. Hence, dont go shopping when you're hungry.

Anyway. Very drunk now, walked home, took the heels off.... stumbled through the cross to the point for some clean sheet loving, vegemite on turkish and my laptop. And Im happy and home. Goodnight.xxx

Wolfmumma!

2006-12-07T18:15:00.000-08:00

Yay go boys! Nominated for a Grammy. So So proud... just like the time I was standing at Coachella watching you perform.. I could not wipe that grin off my face.

Best Hard Rock Performance
(For solo, duo, group or collaborative performances, with vocals. Singles or Tracks only.)

Crazy Bitch
Buckcherry
[Eleven Seven Music]
Every Day Is Exactly The Same
Nine Inch Nails
Track from: With Teeth
[nothing/Interscope Records]
Lonely Day
System Of A Down
Track from: Hypnotize
[American/Columbia]
Vicarious
Tool
Track from: 10,000 Days
[Volcano/Zomba Label Group]
Woman
Wolfmother
Track from: Wolfmother
[Modular/Interscope Records]

Photo thanks to Vodafone Live at The Chapel

REPREZENTTTTTTTTT

2006-12-02T15:51:00.000-08:00

This week was soooo hectic. Launched our new studio on Thursday called the Take 40 Live Lounge... Sandi Thom performend and it looked so pretty. You'll be able to see it on the web @ take40.com early next week. She even wanted to take home part of the set, which we gladly gave her, she wanted one of the table lamps. I cant wait to do more shows in there, it's really exciting.

Friday night was the ksubi(tsubi)/modular party. Rocked up with Ash and Sal, and the place was packed and mental. It was like a smarties box where everyone looked the same, but different colours. Some really good bands played like The Ghosts and the Klaxons, also saw a bit of New Young Pony Club. They were cute and cool. The Doof dance area, was on a go kart rink!!! I saw gabe, It was soooo good to see him! I love you. xxx

As if all that wasn't enough, I also put my had up to work on the publicity team for the day @ homebake this year. I was looking after Channel [V] today. Seeing everyone was great! Didn't get to see many bands because I was running around like a mad chook all day, but I did get a few songs in of the Valentino's who were just in Japan with the Presets who I also got to see (their first time back home since Splendour!YAY!), and I got to see the entire Silverchair set. I forgot how much I love these guys. In the third song I found myself crying. It was like old days. Karina, I wish you were there!!! They played freak, and I could feel the side stage floor lifting! It was so incredible.

A few drinks later it was all over, and hunger started to settle in. Jeremy kept trying to cook me a virtual burger, but it wasn't the same. So Claire decided to go steal some chips out of the Hilltop Hoods dressing room. These guys are the biggest Aussie hip hop act and they love the punisherz, so they rock. Anyway, Claire went in stole some chips which all the hoods witnessed, and then she delightfully shared a few with them before she walked away with the entire packet. She then was walking back towards us, then she turned around to the guys, and said.... "Hey guys!..... REPREZENT!!!!!"..... hahahahahaha it was the FUNNIEST thing ever! They were stunned and didnt know how to react, but after about a 2 second pause they all went " heyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!"... hahaha so hilarious. The chips were good, they semi-saved me.

After that we waited for Jade to wrap her shoot and we were outta there. She had to hire a car for the day because her bf took their one, and all that was left at the place was a convertible!!! it was funny. It was pissing down with rain and we piled in and put the roof down!!! On the way to the after party Ducky and I wrote a song called PINGA. That's for you Ducky. I will sing it when we go on tour with you. PINGA PINGA PINGA... hahahahaa.

The after party was fun. Justine came and met us, and I was dancing until I fell over. Jade had to take me home. Now im hungry, because I still didnt get to eat. Im going to have breakfast with claire. REPREZENT.

xxxx

let it roll....

2006-11-27T03:14:00.000-08:00

Summer is on it's way!! Truly felt it today, not heat wise, but at the launch of the V festival. It made me realise... it's festival season! They Announced the pixies, Gnarls barkley, soulwax/2manydj's, groove armada, PHOENIX, Pet Shop boys & the Rapture.... Mercy Arms played at the launch party, they're also playing on it with Aussie freshkids temper trap. Softlightes and bumblebeez are also on the lineup. Mercy Arms sound amazes me no matter what room they are in! I cant wait to see them on a festival stage.... will be different.

It all begins this saturday with Homebake...the great Aussie feast, Then there's Falls (which the punisherz are playing at), heaps of NYE festivals... there's also Meredith, Pyramid rock, Big Day Out, The Great Escape, Good Vibes, Laneways, Blues fest.... goes on and on until April. Then it all stops. Only for a couple of months, and then my favourite Australian festival of the year, Splendour in the Grass, which happens at the end of July... over a beautiful weekend in byron bay. I love festival season, hopefully i'll get to play, work and enjoy some. Hope u do tooooooooo. xx

NO JOSH HARTNETT

2006-11-18T09:09:00.000-08:00

It's 4am, and im going to simplify things by taking a leaf out of Yumi's book and make a list of all the best things that happened tonight. Sorry for the lack of pciture, my battery was uncharged, perhaps one of my digital camera friends will add photos later.

1. Bats hang out on my balcony, they are cute, and sometimes freak me out. (bat porno in the waiting, for now check out my bird one I made, it's on the punisherz myspace.)
2. Young and Restless are my favourite band. STILL. They kicked tight balls tonight.
3. Temper Trap Dougy is Indonesian, just like Karina, and I and Martini... indo invasion blog to come.
4. Vodka Pineapple with a dash of red cordial. Thanks.
5. Getting into a Kings of Leon Party was Ok. Garth got us in, how ironic. Getting kicked out, very easy.
6. Hate to do this, but im going to have to get you guys to leave.
7. Ok once my drinks I've ordered haev arrived, and i've finished drinking them, I'll leave.
8. Surry Hills house party, lots of Swede's ... i'm in Sydney yah? Swede's very good.
9. Vegas (not Las) random. good. Ping Pong. The real deal, none of that Thailand stuff.
10. Cute pashes.
11. Justine could have kissed josh hartnett if she tried. But we got kicked out before she could. To tell you the truth, i dont even know if it was him. Whatever.
12. Bed time now.
13. Who's coming to breakfast with me? La Buvette? ANYONE?
14. Sometimes your tooth brush makes you spew.

xxx

Sorry

2006-11-14T15:42:00.000-08:00

I have not blogged. I've been too busy reading this one!!!
It is so so good.
Crazy Days and Crazy Nights yes i'm obsessed with it. Better than a copy of NW I tell ya! (sorry Tiff)

We all look the same...

2006-11-05T15:13:00.000-08:00

Apparently. I mean, it was the punisherz official running joke, but now it has been confirmed by S (social section in Sun-herald). For those of you that are blind, it's actually me, and I look nothing like Yumi. Although, i'm very very flattered.

Big week

2006-11-01T01:12:00.000-08:00

It started on Tuesday. Flew to melbourne to see wolfies at live at the chapel! The last time i saw them with less than 200 people was at the hopetoun! no way I was missing this gig. Spent my day off in melbourne and went shopping around fitzroy with Karina. She is the best... and p.s her band youg and restless who have featured in this blog before just won UNEARTHED! I LOVE THEM!

It started with an exciting thursday. Yes thursday (last thursday). Punisherz were playing that night, we hadn't rehearsed, I had a johnny knoxville and incubus shoot, jimmy was in melbourne, jade had just gotten of a plane, yumi was the only one who had it together. We stuffed the gig up massively. That will teach us not to practice! ha.... Anyway enough about that.

Saturday night we went to franco and marty's halloween party. It was fun! cara was way too drunk, and forgot that she hit me for no reason about 50 times. Luckily garth rocked up, because she started hitting him instead. Big ups to Justine and Christine, for their costumes.... they were the best on ground!!

Sunday. Aria's. I had to work, and then punisherz played at the official after party. Drinking bacardi from the bottle is good. Especially when it's free. There was a bit of a drama before we went on stage, i'll leave that for the documentary, but trust me it's really great drama. You can't write that stuff!! Right after we finished playing and losing my dress then finding it again, I went to the modular party in town. Was good... saw some veronica's and some jesse mccartneys, and of course the ole' modular artists. Somewhere at that party, not only did i lose my mind, I lost my keys. When I got home, Danny had to smash the window to get in. Yeah that was fun, cleaning glass up at 5am. YAY.

WHAT A GOOD WEEK. I had fun. Let's do it all again. NOW NOW NOW.

Oh I forgot! I also went to be in The Scare's new film clip. The theme was oriental disco... who else would they ask to be in? The other punisherz were unavailable for the shoot.

I heart monday's

2006-10-22T22:51:00.000-07:00

So much to love about Monday's right now. The highlight is lunch! Every monday G and I go to chinese vegetarian and it super super yum. We get our chilli sweat on and eat loads of tofu and veges. Last week, JT came with us, and he was scared of the goo sloppy goo goo. -But I made him entrust in Mel's ordering, and I came through. Another non-vegetarian turned! I took Cara once and she liked it too. Sal and Glen have also come to the greener side and fallen in love. MMMmmmm Mumma's!

twas a howler of a night.

2006-10-20T16:14:00.000-07:00

REAL EVENT DATE: Thursday 20th July 2006

Sorry to keep back tracking, but my friends keep saying, what happened to this night? And why cant you post about that night... so one day (very soon) we'll be back on track. Thursday 20th July.....happened pretty, randomly. The first thing was I got some free tickets to Wolfmother@ the hordern. Who would like to enjoy in this moment with me? JUSTINE! of course... a. She had just scored a new job with Botox (yeah yeah get in line people) b. She loves going to see a band c. When you put J + M (justine and mel) together it = crazytimes.

Something was in the air that night. It kind of started off the with amount of vodkas we kept going back to the bar for. I'm not sure how many we downed before the actualy show, but it was alot, because I was already nicely cruising. And remember, I wasn't working at this point, i'd just kinda left channel [v]. The first band that we saw was those boys from sweden Dungen . They were really amazing, and kind of not watch I expected at all. Heaps of hair in that band.

Then the jackass kids came on to introduce Wolfmother. They were out here doing their joker and the theif video with them. Wolfmother were really good too. I couldn't believe that only like a little under 2 years ago I had seen them at the hopetoun with about 50 other people. The moment that I had that thought, Andrew also voiced the same opinion to the sold out crowd at the hordern. Andrew and Justine were wearing the same jacket with tails that night.... they must have consulted each other before they left. Whatever. ha!

After this we went to the after party at de nom and we walked into the party, and before it had even started, we see bam bam from jackass hauling down one their buddies asses because he was too wasted already. What a crack up. Anyway, I didnt remember this, but Justine said it was free booze. I didn't know that, probably coz I wasn't going to the bar to get drinks, but now i know why I was so happy. :) hahaha.

We spent the night gasbagging to dungen, and they are very lovely lads. They were also heading to splendour in the grass to play that weekend. I remember thinking if this is the start of my weekend, its going to be rad rad rad. hahaha. It was really late in the night and dungen were talking to Andrew, and then whipped out their camera to get some photos. The bar guy told them it was a private party and there was a no camera rule!! HAHAHA WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. It was THEIR bloody party dude! Whatever.... so yeah. I dont have any photos, maybe gus has one. But later in the night like at about 3 this skinny thing in black walks in. It was Nick Zinner!!! ahhh. I forgot the yeah yeah yeahs were also in town doing shows pre-splendour. By this time Justine and I had probably lost a bit of control and were talking shit with nick. I can remeber something about deep fried chicken legs, and him reminding me he was vegetarian. Ok. Well... nick has some photos as well.. he got away with it. I want to see them one day. haha Justine and I were showing off our deep fried chicken legs. (no chicken actually involved, we were calling our legs deep fried chicken legs) hmmm. Ok.

Anyway. By the time I looked at my clock it was friggin 5am!!! What the!! I had to leave this place immediately! So said goodbye and went on my merry way. Justine continued on... justine what did you do?

oh... the band!

2006-10-18T15:39:00.000-07:00

So when I got back from LA, it was hardcore band practice time. We had set this date ages ago (when we were just all talk) to do our first gig on September 11. I'm pretty much not going to say anything in this blog about the band, because that's going to ruin it for everyone when you start watching our documentary. Yes, the punisherz have been documented (by the lovely bruce) and it's been the best and worst batch of chinese dim sims from a shady asian canteen.

From our first dj gigs at purple sneakers, to friends parties @ warehouses and houses, to djing @ Splendour in the grass. We loved the dj element, but always knew there was more to us than just pushing play. Splendour in the Grass was a definite highlight on everyone's gig list. We were so fucking scared before we went on, this was the biggest show we played and the tent was crammed. We brought out the asian mail order brides in us, changed in the mainstage backstage area, then trekked through the mud in our gum boots and white bridal outfits. All the kids were off their faces and we were just jumping around getting them even more fired up. A boob fell out (mine) but that was to be expected. It's kind of a running joke in the band now.

Anyway, so after all these dj gigs we started gearing up for the first "live performance".... on september 11. Wasn't that a controversy. But we love it. Or yumi loves it at least, if not the most! haha. Wait till you see our band merch tshirts she designed. Now that is pure gold. Yumi has actually become the official art director in our band. She's responsible for all the flyers and artwork. She's so good at it, i'm really proud of her. Our flyers may be controversial, but you haven't seen that shit before.

The first gig was awsome. so much fun... not as many stuff ups as our gigs to follow. You could say that our gigs have consistently gotten worse over the period of time! HA. But that's all going to change. Jump 2 Light Speed were kind enough to take us on tour. We did brisbane, byron, newie and sydney dates. Pretty lucky for a band who only had their first gig like two weeks before that. That tour was awsome fun, I really want to go on the road with the band again. Hopefully we'll follow our Tokyo dream sometime next year.

Enough about the band, because I want you all to watch the episodes of our show instead. I'll have a teaser up here pretty soon. And if any of you readers work for a network, online tv, mobile phone company. And want to play our show.... contact me. We are happy to sell out for some money (good money). We don't want a record contract we want a tV SHOW! hahaha

young and restless

2006-10-18T15:19:00.000-07:00

Young and Restless are the best unsigned band I have seen this year. Karina is like this mega hot asian screaming wonder, leading her band of young men to the slaughter. In a very good way. They're hardcore, with melody and metal with punk. I LOVE IT. Back in June they played at this monster mash party @ Spectrum and G and I decided to get dressed up for the occassion. G was roadkill and i was walking zombie monster.

Damn those Overalls!

2006-10-17T07:33:00.000-07:00

So right after Coachella, Danielle and I head to NYC. First night we get there we get absolutely smashed catch up with Brendan, and go see this band he's raving on about... cold war kids . I actually really loved these guys they blew me away! Check them out now... their album is out.

After continuous shopping and walking around the city, I get a call from my friend franki saying he's in NYC spinning some tunes at the opening of this new place. I'm at some art exhibition in soho where we've just hooked up with John Martin (who I need to drink with again very soon sometime). JM is the grossest guy I know. Probably sicker than me. AND I LOVE IT. So anyway, we go to this place, and we get there... its a fucking red carpet event. Man... im in my bloody shopping overalls and stinky velvet flats, with a white wifebeater - and there are people lining up in $$$ frocks. What the hell am I doing here! Besides that we get in and it's all sweet thanks to franki and hilary. big love.

I was not prepared for this party at all. Actually that would be my advice for every party. Go unprepared. You're set up for a way better day/night. First sighting. Uma thurman. OK we're in NyC at the opening of something with a red carpet, i might see one celeb. Second sighting. Marilyn Manson & Dita Von teese. Ok... Right about now I down my 5th free vodka to numb the feelings of sweaty overall shopping in the midst of Uma, Marilyn and Dita (who's beauty will save us all - jade did i really text you that? definitely had my 5th vodka by then, then.) Third sighting. Marc Jacobs... Ok. Now i'm really regretting this whole shopping all day don't go back to the hotel to get changed thing. Fourth sighting Jamie foxx.... ok I must admit that all the free vodka and champagne had gotten to me by this time, and I didnt realise it was Jamie until 5 minutes before we left.

We left... went to a club.. not sure which one? I thought john martin was with us, but he swears he didnt come to any club with us after. Danielle doesnt even remember going to a club after. Everyone was at the club trying to talk to me about wolfmother. I was just chasing the next vodka. We ended up at Ben's house (see danielle you couldn't have got to his place without me, so you must have come to the club in the middle of the party and his pad).

Next day we head to friggin' Ruby's to get some vegemite on toast. I go for the bondi burger instead... come on give it to me. I was hungover and felt like home cookin. Not even funny but it's a tiny cafe and I end up sitting right next to Adam Zammit. Gee this world is small... bloody aussies. p.s still in Stinky overalls.

DAN & MEL
JM & Mel
JM & FC

L.A Boys are Better than ours

2006-10-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

<< alan (aussie boy) and mel drunk text justine

I am taking a trip down memory lane now... but I really want to post this stuff so I never forget it, until some major computer crash and everyone's blogging memories have gone forvever. Anyway.
LA BOYS ARE BETTER THAN OURS! Just a small observation, so many, so cute, so politie. LA girls may disagree with me, but aren't men always better in a city other than your own?
Went to this Paper magazine party @ the social with my myspace boyfriend( ha! loved to admit it around him since I wasn't in MY hometown....) at the time (never had one since) which was fun, because it was free booze and Alan was there. I hooked up with Alan from my girls Justine and Christine... he was in LA with his band lapping up the scene. He didn't want to leave it, as much as i didnt - maybe more.

Anyway we then proceeded to cinespace. Which for us don't get it wrong is pronounced SIN-E-SPACE. Not SIGN- SPACE.... as I was drunkingly yelling it out around town to disgust of myspace.(boyfriend). God I love saying that, just because I know it would probably raise some eyebrows and bars. TUESDAYS @ cinespace are the maddest parties ever! I had so much fun.... the place is jammed and Steve makes sure the music is dope. Not to mention the live stuff in the back room. Thanks steve for looking after me. I think I wanted to talk to every guy in the room, but I couldn't because the vodka was making my speech a bit slower than usual. To cut a long story short, I did speak to too many guys, forgot about myspace and went to visit the OC right after a party in the hills.

gabe n mel do six flags

2006-10-17T06:28:00.000-07:00

Before we drove out to La Quinta... I also got to hang out with my rad friend Gabriel who was also in town... doing his shit, getting homework beats from Snoop, and just generally being the raddest kid in the world. When he rung and asked to hang, i decided against taking him on one of my LA shopping expeditions, and instead we went to six flags. Gabe... where is the footage dude?

When I found out he had never been there I freaked out! Had to make the drive out there it was fun baby, lets do it again soon!
xx

take me back to coachella black

2006-10-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

my leg goes far
jade actually fit in the kids floatie
<<< martini in bikini

I wish I had started this thing earlier so my memories would be fresh. Oh well better late than never....
Back in March 2006 my friend Jade and I decided to go on a musical expedition. We threw in the towels at work (yes I actually resigned) and rewarded ourselves with a little holiday to a HUGE festival in California called COACHELLA. As word spread that 1/2 of the asian - sensations known as the punisherz were taking this trip, a small group started to evolve. We ended with Martini (who was ending her love affair in new york), Danielle (who was stuck half way through her love affair in Tokyo) and Jed (ongoing love affair with Jade).

So we all eventually met in LA and drove out past palm springs in a big SVU or is it SUV? I never get it right, whilst I educated our small group to the sounds of Mickey Avalon. (the whole way, I had other cd's but none of them turned the tricks like mickey). By the end of it, I can probably safely say that NO ONE was sick of him, because still to this day (it's october now) we still think it's fucking incredible.

We pull up to the la quinta day spa and resort only to find that half the Aussie music industry population is also staying in the same place. It was AWESOMELY HOT! The heat is incredible! Aussie summer festivals have NOTHING on the heat @ coachella. That shit is unbelievable and I loved EVERY STINKING HOT SECOND OF IT!!! It was straight into the pool before anything! And some cocktails. mmmmmmm la quinta! take me back....

Photo's from coach... highlights yeah yeah yeahs....catching up with Russell.... beaming with pride during wolfmother - seriously couldn't wipe the grin off my face I love you guys...catching up with wolfies after their set for a while...gnarls barkley in the rooms across from us, also doing a photo shoot in the cactus garden....my birthday party Harry gave me (Oh yeah it was my birthday). the spa - pre birthday party (not the dawn morning spa, don't talk about that) the adorable friends... jade, jed, teens and danielle. Take me back to coachella black.

saw mark
oh ladies doesn't it suck to be ......
matching shades
jed where are you in these photos....?