Tunes Day, Tuesday #3

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard 

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are a seven piece band out of Melbourne, Australia, and are fairly new band as they hit the music scene in 2011. Their listed their genre on Facebook is "garage" and this is apparent with fuzzy guitars and mumbling vocals, however, they have a very 60s psychedelic feel and similarities to the Beatles with the use of harmonica licks and sitar-like sounds.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard latest album I'm In Your Mind Fuzz is the second album they released this year and boy, it is cool. With a total of 10 tracks, this (roughly) 40 minute album takes you on an almost acid-like trip. The first four tracks smoothly flow into each other and is virtually one long song with an instrumental break in the second track. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are known for using (basically) one word or phrase for a whole song and this album certainly stays true to this. Some examples of this are the repeated phrase "i'm in your mind" in the first and fourth songs (I'm In Your Mind and I'm In Your Mind Fuzz) and repeated words "cellophane" in the third track (Cellophane) [so I counted how many times they said "cellophane" and I came to a total of 24 wow] and the sixth song (Hot Water) repeats "hot water". The majority of the album is very energetic however there are slower songs such as Empty (track 5) and Slow Jam 1 (track 8). If you listen with headphones or left and right speakers you will notice the use of panning in Cellophane, I'm In Your Mind Fuzz and Hot Water. There is also use of wah-wah pedals and whammy bar (or something similar to those) in the last two tracks Satan Speeds Up and Her and I (Slow Jam 2).

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are an all round awesome band and hopefully one day I will get catch them live as I hear is is pretty spectacular!

Check them out on Facebook or their website and listen on Spotify

Bye for now, not forever

P.S. ok so it is now (only just) Wednesday but it is still Tuesday in places other than Australia so it still counts haha

also I feel as though I should of done Christmas music but oh well...maybe I will post some Christmassy music tomorrow

"Schoolies" Trip

Oh Hey

So at the start of the month (wow how time flies) my friends and I went on a little road trip to celebrate finishing high school. Our little getaway was instead of going to Schoolies (if you aren't from Australia you probably have no idea what this is. It is basically a weekend long party for students that have just graduated school to get really drunk and what not.) because we weren't really interested in getting drunk with thousands of annoying people (no offence if you did go, ngl it did look fun, from what I saw from various Snapchats ha.) We somehow managed to get everything organised in a few days after our original plan of where we were going to stay didn't work out and then having trouble getting input from everyone to figure out somewhere else to go.

Anyhoo, it was a 3 hour car ride to our friend's shack in a quiet little fishing town on the Yorke Peninsula where we stayed at for 2 nights. Even though there was beds in the shack we decided to camp outside in a tent, however on the second night we noticed there was a storm coming across so we had to quickly pack the tent up and sleep inside haha.

Photo by my friend Shannon @shannylee1 on Instagram

This photo was taken on the first day (I think) when it was quite warm and you can see how blue the water looks in the background. We didn't go swimming however because apparently there are razor fish there and the sand was really weird, I don't even know if you could really call it sand...it was really gooey and your feet would stick to it...so weird.

Action shot on the jetty ft. pelican

We found some eggs on the beach in a shell nest

We also found a dead crab but how beautiful are the colours of the underside!

Close up shot of a strip of cute tiny shells

I did take a few shells home even though you aren't really supposed to but shh ;) These photos were taken on my phone and like wow they turned out so nice!

How flippin cool are these sunset photos! I love it when the clouds and sky go all pink aahh. It was around this time when two of my friends walked up a hill and noticed the storm coming, luckily they did as we may have gotten a bit wet and blown away in the tent haha.

I will leave you now with a "super gangsta" photo of my friends and I (the one with the blue bandana)

We call ourselves the "Recess Crew" photo from Instagram (@chelsealikesyoursmile)

Bye for now, not forever

I Can't Stop

Or should I say start...

Start my work that is! I have been having a serious case of procrastination lately. I just can't bring myself to actually do my work, not just when I am at home but also when I am in class. I honestly spend most of my time at school staring at blank word documents, blank pages or into space! Like I don't even doodle or anything, I just sit there thinking to myself that I should be doing my work. But I just can't. 

I don't even know why. Maybe it is because I have so much to do I just don't know where to start? Or possibly because I only have 2 and a half weeks left of school --ever-- and I am trying to somehow make time stop so I don't have to leave? Or it could be that I am subconsciously challenging myself to see how long I can put something off and see how quickly I can finish it and still get good marks?

I don't really know.

The good thing is next week I will be on holidays for 2 weeks before heading back to school for another 2 weeks before exams. (I only have one yay) During the holidays I will turn 18 (aah) and have a "Wes Anderson Inspired" party, so that will be fun.

(I am also trying not to think about all the work I am supposed to finish off in the holidays eg. my 60 page art folio that I only have about 20 pages of so far :c )

I guess I am also procrastinating by writing this post but oh well, have a photo I took last year at the Botanic Gardens.

Bye for now.

P.S. I have also been procrastinating by learning German, like wow that is serious procrastination there! (I did learn German for a year when I started high school but yeah haha)

It's Starting To Look A Lot Like Spring

The weather is finally starting to warm up and as much as I like winter, I am quite excited for longer days and wearing cute dresses and skirts!

Today was the first day in who knows how long when it actually warm enough to go out without a jumper (although it was only 20ºC ha) I think us Australians get a little excited after winter! I wore this dress today when I went to get some decorations for my birthday next month, it has come so quickly.

It is nice looking out my window and seeing the sun shining even if I am stuck inside doing homework. I have so much to do this weekend as lots of my work needs to be handed up this week for marking eep! I have been working on a lot of art work over the past week I still have heaps to go!

My visual study is focused of self portraits so I spend a lot of time looking at photos of myself which is a bit weird haha. This photo is of a lino cut that I have been working on, inspired by Barbra Hanrahan. I feel like it has a sort of 60s mod vibe to it which was unintentional.

Okay so I have nothing against other people's paintings but boy oh boy, do I hate painting! I can never seem to get the right shade, or if I do, there isn't enough of it. It frustrates me so much and I try to avoid it as much as possible haha.

That's all from me for now, until next time!

Well Hello!

Over the past month or so I have been thinking of getting back into blogging and well, here I am!

I guess I will start by re-introducing myself...

Name: Chelsea

Age: 17

Currently: in year 12 (and have about 8 weeks left, which I am kinda freaking out about)

Subjects I am doing: English, Art, Fashion, Music-composing, history, solo performance and ensemble performance

(I am actually doing more subjects then I need to because I am crazy and like doing lots of things even if it drives me insane)

Plans for next year: I am hopefully going to be studying fashion at uni (if I get in, fingers crossed)

Hobbies: playing in my brass band (nerdy, I know haha), sewing, reading magazines, playing Animal Crossing (shh it's fun and cute okay) and painting my nails (when I should be doing things like homework haha) 

So yeah that's about all I can think of really :)

Here are some random photos from the last couple of months

A square from my art project

We got new band uniforms

DIY circle skirt

Space nails

Got an awesome book from the art gallery

New pair of shoes that I can't stop wearing

Self portrait for art

 Bye for now, not forever
-Chelsea