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shanti

Suffering is optional.

About Me

Into music, plants, food, live music, driving and music, nature, trying something new, seretonin, courage, dog, cat, home, dreaming, living the dream, friends, family, red, coffee, blue, chooks, hot showers, wet nights, ENOUGH? Don't understand war, economic rationalism, people who drive below the speed limit on country roads without pulling over to let the 20 cars pass that are banked up behind them, logging of old growth forests, why nature is not everyone's god and why people forget they are animals.

My Interests

Music:

TV on The radio, the Panics, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, PJ, Nick, Smog, Buck 65, The grates, nick cave, xavier rudd, joanna newsome,dirty three, stone roses, audreys, prince, go team, massive attack, tricky, waifs, sonic youth, coco rosie, decoder ring and so much more.

Movies:

Look Both Ways, The Oyster Farmer, I heart Huckerbees

Books:

Jitterbug Perfume

My Blog

The Pixies .... my god .... The Pixies

I just spent a weekend with the Pixies, Friday night at Luna park and Saturday at the V festival..... it was a thrilling experience. They played like demons ... Kim smiling all the way through, spitti...
Posted by shanti on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:10:00 PST

election, ball licking and empty toilet bowels

I think we just had a state election ... but who would know ... it's like we just filled in the boxes because we had to and then didn't worry about the results. What's going on? Have we just rolled ov...
Posted by shanti on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 05:43:00 PST

shhhh it's a secret

I woke up on the couch again with the tv buzzing, and this time their were no evangical grandmothers attempting to save my soul, nor were there fat busters attempting to save my waist. It was the secr...
Posted by shanti on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:28:00 PST

Robbie Williams wears adidas

I love live music... I can dance to the hari krisnas if thats all there is ... so when given a Robbie Williams ticket I thought, this could be fun ? He's a looker with attitude, catchy tunes and some ...
Posted by shanti on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:14:00 PST

don't watch the news before you go to sleep

I watched late night SBS news last night. In retrospect I wish i hadn't..... as an Australian I am finding it increasingly difficult to hold my head up with any amount of pride, let alone dignity. Wh...
Posted by shanti on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 01:50:00 PST

Annoyingly happy

I think I am becoming one of those annoyingly happy people. It's monday morning, back at work (as you can see), and while I should be groaning I can't help grinning. There was a cloud of yellow butter...
Posted by shanti on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:49:00 PST

Lets give this blog thing a go

I have been floating in myspace for a few weeks now, satiating my innate curiosity (or is it just plain nosiness), making a few friends, collecting a few tunes and titillating an otherwise simple and ...
Posted by shanti on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 05:59:00 PST