I'm getting all excited... I have a BIG month ahead of me... heavenly!! exciting!! dreamy!! unforgettable!! [warning, some swearwords - i was excited LOL]

Under The Blue Moon festival in Newtown for Halloween - Im not sure if I can make it to the All Hallows Eve Ball, but I am definately going to the UTBM Markets during the day.. They also have an art show I want to check out, and there is a fashion show I have to check out.. I love Goth culture!! Im on the lookout for more clothes, as mine are starting to get ragged - im also looking for some new boots... I want some awesome ones, but they have to be flat, because my ankles are still fucked up from last year.. Wish me luck!

My best friend, Sami, is turing 25 next Thursday, so she decided she finally has to visit me in Sydney... So she is flying down on Wednesday and we are hanging out for a couple of days.. We are going to Taronga Zoo on Thursday, then she is coming to my bookclub that night (Its JR Ward night) and we are going shopping in all my favourit Goth shops on Friday and catching up with some mutual friends from our university days.. then on Saturday....

Saturday is Australia's first EVER Australian Metal Awards!!! Fuck yeah!! I was planning on going stag until we realised that it was Sami's birthday and she was visiting.. out of allllllllll my friends, she is the onlyone who likes metal enough, loves metal gigs, and will come and mosh with me AT metal gigs... Lillian and Linda came to see Ba'lakor in August, but it really wasnt their scene.. me and sami rock out... we either sit back with our bourbons (water if we were broke) taking it all in, or we cut sick on the dance floor.. Ive never had an occasion where we werent up for a good time... So I am SOOOOOOOO excited that sami will be there with me... I think living in townsville and having sami to go to gigs with me spoilt me... I hate going stag to gigs.. its the reason i am not content in sydney... because i have all this amazing metal, but i have no one to gig with.. *sigh* but i do that weekend, and we are gonna go off! We have so many amazing metal bands in Australia, such a big pub scene, but they mostly go under the radar.. the guys organising it are currently campaigning for Aria to have a metal and hardcore chart for the ARIAs chart/music awards... guys, if you are in Sydney that weekend, and you like metal, please come and support the scene! its REALLY important that we show a strong front to the ARIA peeps.... because the charts are full of pop crap, and we need agknowledgement for our music too!
Headline Act: Sadistik Exekution
Support Acts: Ouroboros, Death Audio, Five Star Prison Cell, Bane of Isildur, Killrazer, A Secret Death, Eyefear, Chaos Divine
Come if you are a metal head and in sydey!! and tell friends who may be interested.... More info here: [link]

Sadly, after the Metal Awards Sami has to go back to Townsville (maybe I should kidnap her?)... *sob* but...

OPETH IS COMING TO SYDNEY!! And I have a ticket!!!! so fucking stoked!!! this band is my favourite band of all time... like aboslute favourite... I couldnt afford to go... but both Maree and Sami offered to get me tickets because they realised how disappointed I was ((I cried LOL)) Anyway, i got a loan (I couldnt just take that much money..) from Maree, and bought the tickets before I flew to QLD for my brothers wedding... Contrive just announced they are a supporting act (I discovered them because I am a fan of The Racket on Triple J, and Haugs and his twin are members of the band) and I really like their sounds too... Im going by myself, but i really couldnt give a shit, because its to see OPETH!!!

I really want to see Karnivool next month too - I like the band a fair bit - probably my favourite aussie band at the moment... but I was fine with not seeing them because I've got a lot of gigs lined up lately (I bought my soundwave festival tickets for brisbane in feb too).. But I saw that Dredg has just been announced as a support act and now I want to cry. I am being sensible, but I dont want to BE sensible... Its DREDG! Who I have loved for years... and they arent an Aussie band, so I have no idea when they will be back.. *sigh*

And in further news, my best friend, here in Sydney is having a "Black Christmas" party in early december... think halloween party at christmas... its going to be a lot of fun... I havent been able to see her much this year, both because of health, life and money... So i'm so excited to catch up.... and seriously, every day should be halloween... not the "layers between the worlds thinner" halloween, but the "lets dress up in awesome clothes and have some morbid fun" halloween... oh wait, that is the crass commercialism that friend was derisive on on our favourite social networking site this week i like halloween, because all the things i would normally love to get my hands on are in normal shops... like last week, i was in a shop at my local westfield, and they had a human skelleton, except it was posed like a spider, with 8 skeletal legs... awesome!!

yes, im weird..


Anyway, getting distracted... back on track... I have some amazing weeks ahead... everything else may be meh, and i may not have much money, but i have a number of events I am getting REALLY excited about... So now i'm gonna go over into a corner and do some solo happy dancing instead of writting more shite...

Anyway, my happy happy joy joy news: Under The Blue Moon Festival for Halloween, my best friend visiting me, the Australian Metal Awards, OPETH!!, and having Halloween celebrations instead of Christmas... brilliant!


Oh God! I went to do a search for some halloween deviations to feature... there is so much crap... I have a rule to only feature deviations under 100 favourites... I got up to page 10, and still hadnt seen any good ones I felt were worthy of feature.... Luckily I checked my devwatch and found this awesome photograph by =bitchinblack - its not halloween-ish, but it is gothic LOL

^Whoa, I just bought my first ever print.... and I was the first one to every buy this one! awesome! dA had a message waiting for me when I went to the checkout cart: "Great eye, you're the first person to discover these items!"

Now for some Opeth...

*sigh* Mikael Åkerfeldt......

I'm in a comp for the club stamp for

[link] - if you can vote in the poll? Only for me if you like my stamps

^Mine are the ones by



Update: I got 2nd (9 votes) and 3rd (7 votes) place!!! First prize got 12 votes, and the rest got one or 2. I voted for the one that hadnt any votes, so they didnt feel left out..

I won a print from my wishlist for 2nd prize:


And 3rd prize was for a 3 month sub:


This is the first time I have placed on a competition on dA!!! I rarely enter, and if I get a mention, it is normally just a comendation feature... So i am totally stoaked!!! I've decided I should start entering stamp competions... I get the most attention for those, and I rarely have time to do my other art these days... And I love making graphics in Gimp.... seems logical.... Im going to start featuring underappreciated stamps in my ~obsidianstamps journal now I have a subscription.....

The club is if you feel like joining!!

I'm wishing I had time to go on etsy... i think i want to do steampunk pirate for the #SydneySyders pirate party on saturday... but i think i will just have to do some scrounging and see what I turn up... cos lets face it, nothing i order online will be here by friday LOL

so this means i have to do some shopping..... going to do as much as i can in burwood after work on thursday, and then have to get up early and go second hand shopping on saturday....

I was just going to go as a basic pirate wench, but i was thinking it over, and now is a chance for me to have some fun with the steampunk fashion.. i've always been facinated by it LOL I just wish I had more time to actually make something.... but I work full time, and i couldnt hand sew something with so little time...so I think it will be 'found objects' only. last night, i was reading the latest issue of Fiend, which has a steampunk themethis issue... it got the imagination pumping, and now i have all these ideas... i just wish i had time or money to do something about them LOL I love design, but i just dont have the resources to make things anymore.... i may get a new sewing machine with my tax return... i've only ever had 2nd hand machines, and i always blow them up... i kid you not! im up past 15 these days... i think im cursed... if its a new one, atleast it would be under warranty anyway, i think i want to have a play with steampunk...

My ideas... i think if i find a sleeveless top, and wear a blousey top underneath it, that should do for a top... and wear a long skirt... will look out for something, but i have some that may work... so aside from the top, all i need to find is a big loose belt, a sword or toy gun that looks kinda steampunk, and some sort of victorian looking jewellery... then do my hair up in a vintage look... I wish I had some time to convert a toy to look like a steampunk blunderbuss... or make a cool cutless... but i just dont have the time... it will be fun tho!!!

i like playing dressups too much...







A definition of steampunk from wikipedia:
Steampunk is a sub-genre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or digital mechanical computers (such as Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine); these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or with a presumption of functionality.

Steampunk is often associated with cyberpunk and shares a similar fanbase and theme of rebellion, but developed as a separate movement (though both have considerable influence on each other). Apart from time period and level of technological development, the main difference between cyberpunk and steampunk is that steampunk settings usually tend to be less obviously dystopian than cyberpunk, or lack dystopian elements entirely.


Some steampunk on film: hayao miyazaki films (love him! check out Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Laputa: Castle in the Sky ), van helsing, doctor who (some eps), firefly (mal is awesome!), stardust, chitty chitty bang bang, wild wild west, the time machine (I love the 1960 film!), - there is so much more out there......... i wont tell you them all...


some deviations i admire which have a steampunk feel to them..

I created

^in response to [link]

Go and read this article! [link]

Woohoo! the notebook arrived!!! *ash-bunny is doing a project where she sends a notebook around the world and gets different deviants to fill in a page... Australia is the first stop, and it arrived today! When I have filled in my page, I have to send it off to New Zealand - which is such a relief! Just over the back fence, so to say.. I still have no idea what I will be putting in my section!!! might to a collage, wack in some photos or a painting, and do some sketching around it or something... If it isnt complete crap, i will upload it here LOL

~GambielsPet and ~FyreLiLi arrive in less than 2 days! So freaking excited!!

I started a new account.. ~obsidianmusings - I decided I need to delete my blog with all my poems and stuff, but i want to keep them somewhere... I wont be updating it frequently, but yeay, I will be sharing... I have no pretences or illusions of the quality of my poems. Its about self expression, not being the next William Blake or Shelley. Its mostly free verse or haiku, but i will be putting up some short stories when I have had a chance to review them...

haha im so excited about the girls getting here... havent seen them since january!!!! long time not to see your best friends LOL and we are going to see Dreadnaught, Ba'lekor and a few other metal bands on saturday night! haha doing tequila shots first! its gonna be brilliant!!



I stole this random feature from =DianaCretu's journal.

There are some questions, and you search on dA for the word that is your answer to the questions. And then place the thumb as an answer to the question. Easy, huh?



1. the age I will be on my next birthday



2. a place I'd like to travel



3. my favorite place



4. my favourite object



5. my favourite food



6. my favourite animal



7. my favourite colour



8. the town/state/etc where I live



9. name of past pet



10. a dream come true



11. my nickname



12. my middle name



13. my favourite smell



14. bad habit of mine



15. my first job



16. my favourite movie



17. what I am doing right now



18. what's the weather like



19. favourite sport



20. favourite music/style/band



21. my biggest hobby