The last of the Summer days...

(disposables)

Like I previously mentioned the rest of the summer days were spent hibernating and watching plenty of films. I tried to stay positive, and kept myself surrounded by my amazing friends. I got ready for university by picking my units and starting a lot of the literature that I had to get through. I study two English units, so there is quite a lot of long literature novels to get through that I probably won't have time to during the semester. My other two units are Politics, which is mostly based upon political philosophy as opposed to more theoretical politics that we studied in high school and lastly French intermediate, which at the moment i'm finding incredibly easy.

02.12 Laneway

On February 12th I went to Laneway, which was a day-long music festival held in Perth city. Bands included were; Local Natives, Foals, Two Door Cinema Club, Yesayer, Gotye, Cut Copy, Cloud Control, Beach House, Warpaint amongst many others. As amazing as the Laneway line-up was, I was feeling like shit and left after Local Natives. I missed most of the big acts, but I just really wasn't up for it at all.

Sufjan Stevens

(source; google images)

The night that I came home from Brisbane one of my favourite modern artists, Sufjan Stevens was performing in Perth at the Regal Theater. I'd been looking forward to this concert for months and it certainly didn't disappoint. He played the entirety of his latest album The Age of Adz as well as old favourites such as Chicago and To Be Alone With You. He didn't play much of his folk favourites, which I was anticipating but nevertheless it was a good concert.

The next day I was off to a Arts Camp. Arts Camp is a fresher camp for all the first year University students who intend to study Arts. It practically involves no sleep, drinking games and all things teenagers do. I won a skull-off competition against someone in dread-locks in front of the whole camp and almost died of bloatation (well, not really) during the boat races. All in all it was a fun three days which made me super excited for the commencement of uni.

In the days that I returned, I received some horrible news that kept me in hibernation for most of February. I won't go into too much detail here, and those of you who know me already know the severity of the matter. I feel like I've gotten through it now, by keeping focus on many of the other things in my life and with the help of some amazing friends that I have. However I think it will be something that i'm going to have to deal with for the rest of my life. I think there will be days when i'll struggle to get through, but that's life. And the whole situation made me realise just how amazing my friends really are.

Brisbane

In the first week of February I headed over to Brisbane to visit my Grandma for her 90th Birthday. I hadn't been back to Brisbane (which is where my Dad's side of the family is on) since I was 10 so it was nice to see everyone again. Her 90th birthday lunch was nice and filled with nostalgia.

I had completely forgotten that my Uncle is a film director. He mostly does low budget documentary films for cable TV but it was still pretty cool to be taken around his studio and look at all the fancy equipment. He also hires out a lot of cameras and things like that, and gave me a film SLR plus a whole heap of film! I haven't gotten any of my rolls developed yet, but hopefully it turns out nicely. I'm still experimenting with film, but so far i'm loving it.

I did a little bit of shopping aswell, investing in my first pair of jeans that I have since been living in. They are amazing. Also I got my prep on for the kick-start to Uni, filling my wardrobe with oxfords and cable-knit sweaters. I can't wait til winter!

Zoe's Welcome Home

The week in between Sydney and Brisbane was an interesting one to say the least. Let's not dwell on the past. Australia day was celebrated with a surprise coming home breakfast for my good friend Zoe who had been in Norway for the year. The rest of Australia day was average-ish but it was a nice breakfast, and a good way to catch up with many of my friends that I hadn't seen since school finished.

Black Swan

(via google images)

I should write a review on Black Swan, as I really did love it. But I'm not in the mood, and I wanna get posting some more so here's some snaps of the gorgeous Natalie Portman.

Flickerfest: Closing Night

(disposables)

Closing night unfortunately wasn't anywhere near as good as opening night. We all got super drunk off Jameson whiskey (which gave us the worst hangovers in eternity) and didn't really meet too many more cool people. Nevertheless, the two weeks working at flickerfest was a blast. We got to see a whole pile of films and meet a whole pile of people whilst working at one of the best film festivals in Australia. I still have a whole pile of disposable snaps that I haven't yet uploaded, but I will in due time (or when I fall into another lull again and have nothing to post.)