Easter? Whats Easter?

To say its been a mad few days would be the greatest understatement of the year..... and there's no signs of it easing up soon!

Here are the days at a glance:
Friday (Unloaded trailer, loaded fridge, took pre DIY video!)
- Wood panels removed from Family
- Wallpaper and adhesive removed from Kitchen, Lounge, Reception, Dining, 3 Bedrooms and Hall
- Hooks, wall plugs etc removed from walls/roof (200+!) holes filled and sanded
- 4 Gutter overflows fitted
- BIR and bedroom doors removed
- Cork wall in entry annihilated!

Saturday
- Light electricity off
- All ex-wallpapered walls sugar soaped
- Cornices painted in 3 bedrooms and hall (2 coats)
- Cork wall glue removed
- Ceilings painted in 3 Bedrooms and hall (1st coat)
- Ex-wood panelled walls prepped (stage 1)

Sunday
- Ceilings painted in Bedrooms and hall (2nd coat)
- Sanity lost
- Cut in 3 Bedrooms, Hall, Bathroom, Laundry and Toilet
- Bed 1/2 walls painted (1st coat)
- More cork wall glue removed
- Ex-wood panelled walls prepped (stage 2)
- Cornices in Kitchen, Lounge, Dining, Reception painted (2 coats)
- Kitchen cut in and painted (1st coat)

Monday
- Hall, Bed 3, Bathroom, Laundry and Toilet walls painted (1st coat)
- 3 Bedrooms, Hall, Bathroom walls painted (2nd coat)
- Lounge/Dining cut in
- Cornice repaired in Lounge
- Kitchen painted (2nd coat)
- Bed 1/2 and Hall skirtings filled
- Lounge/Dining/Reception painted (1st coat)
- Light electricity on!
- All rubbish dumped from trailer

Tuesday
- Ex-wood panelled walls prepped (stage 3)
- Kitchen wall skimmed
- Bed 3, Lounge, Dining and Reception skirtings filled
- Lounge/Dining painted (2nd coat)
- Ceilings painted in Lounge, Family, Kitchen (1st coat)
- Cornices painted in Family (2 coats)
- Cut in Family
- Skirtings, BIRs painted in Bed 1 and 2 (1st coat)

Tonight
- Sand Kitchen wall
- Skim Family/Cork wall
- Paint Kitchen wall (1st coat)
- ?

Tomorrow Night
- Sand Family wall
- Paint Family wall (2 coats)
- Paint Kitchen wall (2nd coat)
- Paint Reception walls (2nd coat)
- Paint skirtings in Bed 1, 2 and BIRs (2nd coat)
- Paint skirtings in Bed 3, Hall, Lounge, Dining and Reception (2 coats)
- Begin cleaning

Friday Night

- Sand Cork wall
- Paint Cork wall (2 coats)
- Touch up skirtings
- Clean!

... and tonight is our final Ante-natal class to boot! Add pregnancy, packing our old house, cleaning and eating to the above and there's not much time for sleep let me tell you.

All needs to be completed before Saturday as we'll be rolling the moving truck into the driveway!

Weekly WTF: Tampon Chandelier

Open Your Ears Wk 14

Walk You Home / Night Vision Binoculars - Passenger

this is entirely weird, I have had this song on my computer for a couple of years now and I love it but over the last two weeks for some reason it has been popping up more often and it sparked enough interest to want to listen to more of their songs

so today i hunt down their myspace site and low and behold they are touring Australia..in April..in Perth...on the 5th. Yep today, a 2pm gig in Freo. Pity it's 4pm when i look at the website!

anyway this guy is a 23 year old from the UK and he has written a killer pop song about being a stalker, haha another in the line of Every Step you Take by the Police or On My Mind by Powderfinger

also interestingly enough as a single it was released under two different names, obviously a little obtuse to get the attention of the Yanks but pretty straight down the line for the UK audience. Its a bit weird a concept to give one song a couple of names.

Single Version on Youtube

Live on a radio gig

I see you nearly everyday.
I see you, but you don't see me.
I wish I had something clever to say.
And I wish I had something better I could be.

We touched hands by the coffee machine the other day.
I know you've forgotten already,
But I'm gonna take that moment to the grave.
To the grave.

Cuz I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
Oh, yea.

I see you nearly every night.
I see you when you're down in your house.
With my night vision binoculars
I creep quiet as a mouse.

And I get jealous when I see you stroking his hair.
But it's okay, I tell myself 'cause I know
It's only I'm not there.
I'm not there.

Cuz I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
Well I just need some time alone.
I just need some time alone.

I'm the boy who watches the phone.
I'm the boy who eats lunch on his own.
I'm the boy with the monotone.
I'm the boy who still lives at home.

I'm the boy with the ironed shirt.
I'm the boy who watches you work.
I know where you keep your skirts.
I know where your secrets lurk.

I'm the boy that's calling your house.
I'm the boy that's freaking you out.
With my thermal flask of tea.
Up there in your neighbor's tree.

I'm the boy that's crossing borders.
I'm the boy with social disorders.
I'm the boy with restraining orders.
I'm the boy, yeah.

Cuz I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.
And I know that's it not right to creep.
But I just wanna watch you sleep alone.

Cuz I just wanna walk you home.
I just wanna walk you home.

Weekly WTF: Moral Kombat

"Home Of Dawson" feat. Dee-I-Why

There is .. a house .. in Edgewater
They caaaaaaaaall the Home Of Dawson
And it's been .. the ruin .. of rolls of wallpaper
And God .. I know .. of 10

My mother .. was a painter
The laundry tiiiiiiiiiles coooooooouldnt save her
My wife .. wants everything orange
Down .. in Edge .. water

Now the oooooooonly thing .. a painter needs
Is a waaaaaaaall .. caaaaaaaan .. and brush
And the oooooooonly time he's saaaaaatisfied
Is when .. he's complete-ly done

Oh mother .. tell your children
To grab a steamer .. scraper .. and bin
Spend your Eeeeeeeeeaster .. in DIY .. misery
In the home .. of the .. Daw-sons

Well, I got oooooooone foot on the ladder
The ooooooother foot on the bench
I'm guuuuuuunna try .. to clean up this .. pig sty
To prepare .. for our next .. genera-tion

There is .. a house .. in Edgewater
They caaaaaaaaall the Home Of Dawson
And it's been .. the ruin .. of rolls of wallpaper
And God .. I know .. of 10
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Open Your Ears Wk 13

heart - Bertie Blackman

Aussie artist who has a little bit of variety in her style from pop to indie to remix/dancey stuff, always interesting and unqiue. She isn't your typical beautiful girly type singer but more of a grungy goth style look but without the rough voice

I chose this track coz its reasonably new, off the most recent album at least but I think her popularity should hopefully be on the up!

Heart Utube

a great cover of Siouxise and the banshees "Peek-A-Boo"

myspace.com/bertieblackman has her most recent singles etc, good listening

DIY.D.Zaster

Unfortunately alot of home DIY is based on theory.

We tell ourselves "painting isn't THAT hard", "it's just diverting a water pipe" and the Australian classic "she'll be right, how hard can it be!". Reality begs to differ and while its almost impossible to eliminate hiccups altogether, we do our best to use our experience to keep them to a bare minimum.

Last weekend we were 'weekend warrioring' mums place and while nothing was too difficult, there was an awful lot to get through. Whether it was weariness, boredom or just plain bad luck - reality gave us a wake up call!

1 second Mum was running a bead of no more gaps around the cornice in the laundry and the next she was lying on the tiles. You see, you reach the cornice she was standing on the laundry bench! Just the fall would have been bad enough but in 1 hand she had a dish of water and in the other a sealing gun - not a great combo when your swan diving from 4ft!

After an ambulance ride and several hours in hospital, she came out ok apart from a VERY messed up finger (as pictured!) and some bruising down her side. Quite amazing really given that people (me) have done worse from falling from standing on nothing!

With our impending DIY Easter Extravaganza fast approaching, I can only dream of the injuries and trials we have in front of us. Not much we can do to prepare but top up the insurance/ambo cover and plunge in head first.

Dislocated fingers crossed!
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Bye Bye Balcatta, Enter Edgewater!

Just a notification that our house settlement has become official and Balcatta is merely another history page in our book of life.... ohh.

We're getting the keys this Thursday 1/4 and I've hired a truck for the following Saturday (10th April) to move out. The reason for the week gap is there is some 'decorative' DIY to be completed before we move in and welcome DJ to his/her first home.

So this email is mainly to let you know our new address but also to put out a 'HELP' if your free at all over the Easter break for some DIY action stations or the following Saturday for moving.

The DIY is just wallpaper removal and painting so even if its just 1 day, 1 morning or 1 hour, all help will be appreciated. Its all systems go from dawn on Good Friday so give me a buzz if you can lend a hand. Moving house will be starting around 10am Saturday 10th so again if your free, let us know.

Drinks, food, tools provided and I will also bring a fully qualified heavily pregnant foreman to order you around!

If you would like to know our new address just flick me an email :P

Ciao

Soundtrack Of The Day: Karnivool
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Open Your Ears Wk 12

LazyEye - Silversun Pickups

i'm running a day late in my selection due to the freakstorm last night which gave us no power, so no background just the goods

Youtube LazyEye

myspace.com/silversunpickups has numerous good songs of theirs

youtube Theres no secrets this year

if you like them then you probably already like the Smashing Pumpkins, go listen to Siamese Dream again! GIVE ME SOME LAYERED OVERDRIVEN GEETARRRRRRRRRRRRRS

PS. They are currently supporting MUSE, come get some!

Weekly WTF: Sniper Peephole Decal