Like Clockwork

Like clockwork, hands greet and pass.
Set apart, torn at the heart and eyes that leave pillows with a scent of salt.

It's dead text and missed phone calls, early mornings and late nights spent so dull.
The cogs, the gears, and all our fears are rusty with wicked words and tortured thoughts.

She runs up to your side, and tells another lie and says that everything will be alright.

mandarin peels

there's one sitting on the computer desk like a bloomed flower, I wouldn't mind another one but it's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too cold to get one from out in the kitchen.

The bands changed names again, and this is a keeper. Reason being is that I felt uncomfortable saying - insert band name here - now it's a simple "Chambers"

I'm adamant on keeping my hair short from now on, but it'll be a pain cause my hair grows super quick.

I've got tickets to the Arctic Monkeys and The Vines - The Vines was my girlfriends idea - and I'm super keen on both of them!

I want singing lessons but there aren't exactly any close by in my area, when I get a car that'll be a different story...provided that I can be bothered.

I want to get my course over and done with so I can focus on working more often, two shifts a week isn't cutting it in terms of pay.

I'm very close to having my full pedal board, so far I'm pretty sure the whole board is worth $1500+, EVERY CENT WAS WORTH IT.

I want an acoustic guitar and a back up electric guitar, I've got someone that's saving up to buy my old mex tele but they're taking their sweet time.

Right now Gotye is playing through my speakers, to much of an under rated artist in Australia.

Jim

its been way too long

here I sit on the computer as always thinking about what to blog about.

Thank you Miss Melanie Au for asking

"why don't you blog anymore?"

I work nowadays so thats a bit of a downer to not having 5 minutes to spend posting something that only a pinch of people will read.

What's been happnening?

I've enrolled for my second year at uni
I'm working at Max Brenner's
I'm becoming awesome at making coffee

- really fucking slowly -

And The Bells are rehearsing very often which has me over the moon.

We recently did a photo shoot, a very very very lame one.

Here I present, The Bells sleeping with their instruments.

writing

its a fucking bitch,
moments of inspiration come and go too often.

band rehearsals on friday,heck yes! its only been a fortnight since we last rehearsed but it feels like a month. Need to get our shit together and start gigging.
Jason's got his Ps and a car which makes matters all the more easy.

where music is made

Holy fucking jesus munchies it's been too long since I've blogged.
Should start doing it more often, what happened to this 'routine'?

Well the holidays are in full swing so I'll have plenty more time to do nothing.

quick post sadly as it IS rather late.

Life thus far, stolen off Lisa

Graduated High School.
Kissed someone.
Smoked cigarettes.Got so drunk you passed out.
Rode every ride at an amusement park.
Collected something really stupid.
Gone to a rock concert.
Helped someone.
Gone fishing.
Watched four movies in one night.
Gone long periods of time with out sleep.
Lied to someone.
Snorted cocaine.
Smoked weed.
Dealt drugs.
Taken a college level course.
Been in a car (motorcycle) accident.
Been in a tornado.
Done hard drugs (i.e. ecstasy, heroin, crack, meth, acid).
Watched someone die.
Been to a funeral.
Burned yourself accidentally.
Ran a marathon.
Your parents got divorced.
Cried yourself to sleep.
Spent over $200 in one day.
Flown on a plane.
Cheated on someone.
Been cheated on.
Written a 10 page letter.
Gone skiing.
Been sailing.
Cut yourself.
Had a best friend.
Lost someone you loved.
Shoplifted something.
Been to jail.
Dangerously close to being in jail.
Had detention.
Skipped school.
Got in trouble for something you didn’t do.
Stolen books from the library.
Gone to a different country.
Dropped out of school.
Been in a mental hospital.
Watched the “Harry Potter” movies.
Had an online diary. — tumblr?
Fired a gun.
Gambled in a casino.
Had a yard sale.
Had a lemonade stand.
Actually made money at the lemonade stand.
Been in a school play.
Been fired from a job.
Taken a lie detector test.
Swam with dolphins.
Gone to Sea World.
Voted for someone on a reality TV show.
Written poetry.
Read more than 20 books a year.
Gone to Europe.
Loved someone you couldn’t have.
Wondered about your sexuality.
Used a coloring book over age 12.
Had surgery.
Had stitches.
Taken a taxi.
Seen the Washington Monument.
Had more than 5 IM’s/online conversations going at once.
Overdosed.
Had a drug or alcohol problem.
Been in a fist fight.
Suffered any form of abuse.
Had a hamster.
Petted a wild animal.
Used a credit card.
Gone surfing in California.
Did “spirit day” at school.
Dyed your hair.
Had something pierced.
Got straight A’s.
Been on the Honor Roll.
Known someone with HIV or AIDS.
Taken pictures with a webcam.
Started a fire. (not too worry, it was contained and used as a marshmallow fire thing)
Gotten caught having a party while parents were gone away

Books and how not to read them

Don't buy them and leave them on your desk for about a month or so.
I got the great gatsby a month or so back and have yet to read a single page of it, not even because I don't have time but because I haven't bothered.
Quite sad really.

Has been awhile since I posted something on the bloggo-sphere and the last thing I did post was about a sentence or so long.

So let's catch up in the world that is Jim's.
I've started to use the recording studio which I have free access too and dear god it is a lot of fun to record music. Its nice to get locked away in a studio and think about nothing but music music music. The Bells will be heading into the studio today to record a few things and yes indeed it is nothing short of exciting! Then on Wednesday I'm heading back into the studio again to record my friend's band, The Analyte whom are very rocking.

I've been writing as usual and resurrected my old red hollow-body guitar which was out of use for a good 6 months. Tis nice to have a big chunky guitar strapped on again, sounds so fucking mean with new strings on it.

A new social norm for me and my friends is going to the pub. Not ANY pub but the Lions Hotel pub located at Melbourne Central. $12 jugs of beer?

HECK YES

So we usually head there on Thursday and drink the night away. Our last trip was quite grand as we managed to fill out the strangely large booths they have at the pub, we fit Linh Bircan Kiet Trang Tony Thong Nam July and myself into the booth and orders were for beer and food.

Have yet to plan the next trip but it will be soon, oh it will be soon.
I best be done with this so take care and thank you for reading.

Yes, I just effectively wasted a few minutes of your life.

J.Duong

women

having a conversation with a friend of mine, and dear god do you girls fuck us over and in the head.

J.Duong