Finally right?
Here’s a snippet
Graffiti Laneway
St. Kilda, Melbourne. Luna Park.
View from Mrs Macquarie's Chair, Sydney.
Sydney Harbour Bridge & Opera House!!!
View from our hostel's roof in Sydney.
My obsession satisfied.
Lounging on the grass in Rushcutters Bay Park, Sydney.
Being veg is hard enough..but i’m gonna try to go vegan for a few weeks. I’m gonna do it first, for 5 days starting tomorrow. Break for turkey day (spending it as a guest so I don’t want to inconvenience them too much) and then try another 5 days. Being vegan makes you really think about what you are putting into your body because a lot of things you don’t realize contain animal products or trace amounts of dairy products. It is going to be HARRRDD but I’m totes going to do it! I did it once and it felt great but I really love cheese too much to give it up forevs!
Keep ya posted!
I love Zac Efron. I’m not sure why, but whenever I hear his name or his voice my 13 year old self rejoices! Seriously, I should write an academic paper on High School Music (1-3).
I am really distraught about the fact he will be in Austin alongside Richard Linklater for the Austin premiere of ME AND ORSON WELLES. My friend Loretta saw it in March during SXSW and sung it’s praises and she’s a hard woman to please! I’m going to be in NYC for Thanksgiving and looked at tickets home for the 29th and it was $400 bucks for a one-way ticket so there goes my friggin’ dream!! If anyone can go to this or is going to this please post lots of photos and comment so I can stalk you and we can become friends. I need someone else to share my love of Zefron with! My other pals are Twilight diehards (as in, camping in LA for 3 days to get into the fan section). Me & Zefron!? *sad face*
Austin Film Society presents the regional premiere of
Richard Linklater’s Me and Orson Welles
Monday, November 30, 2009
Doors/Bar @ 6pm | Show @ 7pm
Tickets: $131* – 17.50
The Paramount Theatre
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*VIP includes admission to premiere after-party at the Highball
With director Richard Linklater and actors Zac Efron and Christian McKay in attendance for post-show Q&A.
Based in real theatrical history, Me and Orson Welles is a romantic coming-of-age story about a teenage actor (Zac Efron) who lucks into a role in Julius Caesar as it’s being re-imagined by a brilliant, impetuous young director named Orson Welles at his newly-founded Mercury Theatre in 1937 New York City. The rollercoaster week leading up to opening night is riddled with rehearsal mishaps, a love triangle with Welles’ career-minded production assistant (Claire Danes), and the charismatic but sometimes cruel Welles (impressively portrayed by newcomer Christian McKay) staking his career on this risky production.
This screening is a benefit for Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund, which was started in 1996 by Richard Linklater to assist emerging Texas filmmakers. www.austinfilm.org
Trailer:
I wrote this several days ago but since then have left Portland and am currently sitting at the show in Burlington. Here’s what I’ve done:
Day off tomorrow in Burlington, VT! Zomg! I wanna:
Portland, ME is a cute town. I’ve been to a ton of cute towns, but once again touring has reafffirmed that Austin, TX is the place to be (for me). The cold, cloudy days here in the Northeast have been wearing down my soul. I go through the ‘I Love Touring’, ‘I Hate Touring’ thing..daily..My mom has accepted that this is my life but other family members just can’t understand it. Everytime they see me they ask me what else I am doing and what I will do next once this ‘phase’ is over. Touring life is rough at times but I can’t imagine a different life at this moment. You sacrifice a lot when you tour the country/the world. Deaths, birthdays, weddings, important moments in the lives of your family & friends are missed. I think now is the time for me to just take in the moments I’m creating for myself.
I’ve been home for two days (yay)
My car is dead..but I have faith that it will be resurrected tomorrow when the roadside assistance people come into my parking garage..ha
I’m hoping Penny doesn’t die on me. I neeeeeedd her (and can’t afford anything better right noww!).
Tomorrow, Drew Smith’s Lonely Choir is playing at Mohawk w/ Wiretree & Tribella. 9PM. Look forward to walking around downtown. Maybe I’ll treat myself to a meal 
You know…because my car is dead and all (and I can’t get groceries)..
I’ve missed out on a lot of fun Austin parties 
But here’s one I’m glad I’m in town for! Bleet-up! The Four Seasons one was great, TollyM sure does know how to throw a parrtayyy.
It’ll be so nice to see some of my Austin blogrls Meets new peeps, drinky drinky and partay.
Friday I’m going to see my friends The Gay Blades. Anyone wanna come? We are having the first ever band sleepover here in the new apt. Fun will be had. Good thing I live close enough where we can just stumble back home.
So yes, the Mai schedule resumes.
(via loveyourchaos)
i wish the one thing i love, the one thing i chased, hadn’t become so… commonplace to me. for all the kids who want to work in the music industry, change your mind now. before you get old and jaded like the rest of us.
For serious. Yo. I’m not even sure I LOVE music anymore..is that crazy or what? I lost that intense drive and lust for music, constant discovery, excitement. Sometimes I just feel like it’s gone. I worked for one of my favorite artists and it changed everything. Blah blah blah, I’m not complaining. People envy my job and for the most part I love it, but you sacrifice a part of your love for something when you pursue it so hard.
It blows
After I painted my bedroom, it dawned on me…
So I lazied out off painting my kitchen & living rooms. I have great solutions for the space but haven’t put ANY of it to use! There are plates, frames, chotchkies all waiting to be hung and then I found this little tip (and many others on Quarterlifestyle) I love her blog soo much! I think I’m going to do this behind my television wall (perhaps when the roomie moves out) and I’ll add ‘Get New Furniture’ to the list…I want some cool vintagey/moderny furniture.
Fabric on the Walls using STARCH (wall friendly and easy to take off/clean). Simple solution! Now I just gotta get the ‘rents up here to help with this project haha
I’m really hoping to stay at my new place for another year at least. Most importantly, I want to find a really AMAAZING roommate so I can love life again haha.
there’s nothing like the feeling of looking out a bug splattered window and seeing America.
Austin is in the midst of change. APA has been advocating for and doing the work of saving lives at the shelter that were destined to be killed. We have saved almost 2,000 animals over the last 12 months that would not have been alive without us.
We have made various proposals to the City to increase our involvement at TLAC and have even asked to receive funding/space for the work we do. Our proposals have been met with resistance although we are still in discussions with high level City staff. They don’t seem to think that it is important to save the lives of animals at TLAC and they don’t think the community cares about saving them either. I think because the community has not publicly spoken up, they also seem to think that changing anything in Animal Services is more trouble than it is worth.
This Tuesdsay, the City is hosting a meeting for all the animal welfare agencies to discuss the APA proposals (and other long term community plans) in an effort to get a pulse on what the community thinks the City should prioritize in animal welfare. This is the first time that the City has called for a meeting like this.
We need as many people as possible to be there to advocate for increasing APA’s role at the shelter in a big way so that the save rate of animals at TLAC will go up dramatically.
The meeting will be on Tuesday, October 27th at 6 PM at the Rosewood Zaragosa Neighborhood Center (2800 Webberville Road). This is our chance to let the City know that citizens not only care very much about increasing Live Outcomes, but citizens want those increases to occur immediately and on a large scale.
At the bottom of this message is more details about the Community Action Meeting. I apologize in advance for the short notice. It is all we got.
Why is it so important that you be there? There is a REAL chance that the City and the groups present will prioritize everything but saving more lives at TLAC. This actually happened at the last All Community Meeting sponsored by the ASPCA 2 years ago. Saving more animals at TLAC was not even mentioned in the Prioritized Outcomes from that meeting!
You can make this meeting count towards saving lives from dying at TLAC by being there to vote!
Spay/neuter and education/outreach will be at the top of the priority list as they have been for a long time. We all know how important those activities are but without an emphasis on saving animals at our shelter, we will never get to No Kill. This topic has to come out into the open and be addressed. And for once, it needs to be the City’s #1 priority.
We need you to be there to support the good work we all have done and continue to do. We all see it working every day. We just need a lot more of it. Saving all the lives of healthy and adoptable animals is possible!
Our work is responsible for 96% of the increase in Live Outcomes since last year! That is just because of our passion and commitment. Think what we could do with support from Council, the City, and other animal welfare agencies.
This is the most important meeting in our organization’s history. It has the power to determine our future (and therefor the future of a lot of overlooked animals).
Please, please come if you can.
Also, I have to send a rough tally of APA members who will attend probably by the end of the day on Monday. It is optional (I just want you to be there!) but it would be great if you could use this doodle poll to reflect your attendance http://doodle. com/7hrq9ufu6e9s 6kh3
Honestly no number is too big. If we have 25 people there, that will be good. If we have 50, even better.
I will be presenting for APA and will highlight the amazing work that YOU have done.
Thank you and I hope to see you there! We can make saving lives a priority!
Ellen
Ellen Jefferson, DVM
President
Austin Pets Alive!
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Sitting at the merch booth at Eddie’s Attic. Eddie’s Attic is where john Mayer got his first start. I’m staring at his quadruple platinum plaque for ‘Room for Squares’ right now. I always wanted to be here and I am! And I get to eat all of Eddie’s Attic’s amazing food for free. Try their extra cheesy mac n cheese and french onion soup! om nom nom
I’ve been keeping up w/ google reader sort of (got caught up on my last day off), but wanted to show you this totes awesome site devoted to taxidermy!! Thanks to atxhipsters for tweeting about it!
Also here are some pics from the tour. I’m gonna post some Oz pictures next week.
