Emo boys snogging

We went to a friends birthday last night, which was fun, with mexican food. On the way we caught a bus. It was filled with emo kids. There were two boys, snogging and well I actually saw a groping of crotch. I was thoroughly amused.

Firstly there's this vid of two emo boys kissing here (if that doesn't work, let me know) which I'd thought everyone had seen but obviously not (m_minna who was also on the bus).

Secondly emo is the new goth and nothing anyone has said yet has convinced me otherwise. So these kids are on the bus, kissing away and peeking across at us, up at the people behind them: they were so putting on a show. Not that I don't think they were actually interested in each other (it was way more convincing than the vid which is a party game daring the boys to kiss for two minutes), it's just they were very aware of the titters coming from behind them. When we were gothing it up, just dressing in cloaks (in the middle of a high summer in Brisbane) was enough to send the 'normals'(read the sarcasm) into paroxysms of terror, now, 15 years later, they have to act it up a notch.

So I'm sitting across from them dressed in not 100% goth, because hell it's this funky egyptian style top with blue that looks really good on me, nia7 in our favourite Type O Negative shirt, and our two geek-like crew, because really don't need to be Goth to be goth. And they're putting on a floor show and all I can think is *snigger* a)kawaii, you guys are *so* young and so not original and b) I've written stuff more graphic than the boy-on-boy love you're trying to *freak me out with*

kawaii desu!

also what's with all these emo kids out this weekend, oh that's right: Halloween...

eta. as of 060909 the link doesn't work - thank you shadefur for letting me know. Can't find a new link to the original but if you youtube emo boys kissing there sure are a lot of vids!

The start of summer: 2005's first bushfire...

Its been hot. Very hot, cat sleeping on the shiny lacquered floor to keep out of the heat hot, not leaving the house even to go to air conditioning because its too hot to move hot. Just hot.

And I'll point out the frustrating thing. Look at the date of this entry. No seriously. It's October. We've got at least another month before its supposed to get this hot.

If someone tells you there isn't climate change they are lying. When I was in Grade 1 (1981) I can remember in late November/early December being told that we were moving our class out of the classroom to the covered cement area under the building because it was cooler. The temperature had reached 37 or 38 degrees Celsius and I remember this because it was so unusual. Now our summers are usually 37-40 degrees Celsius and the last five or so years has instituted a policy of including air conditioning in all school classrooms.

On Thursday night there was a bushfire which was so pretty against the D'aguilar ranges, just north of Mt Cootha and the TV Towers. I could see it from my verandah at the new house while I was trying to get some airflow to take the heat down in the evening. We have to lock the cat into the library or our rooms temporarily and open the front doors that don't have flyscreens but are very pretty and shiny even. My SO insists that a cat, three generations from wildcat, will be an indoor cat. Me and The Cat aren't so sure and I've got the scars to prove it.

StephenDann on lj linked us to this set of photos by Bandido of Oz of the bushfire and there's a shot (the first one that you see) that looks like our view but from closer - we have another hill and about three suburbs between us and them there flames.

Currently it's still hot, not as hot as Thursday with the smoke and flames keeping the heat in, but still pretty hot. I'm staying in the house, not moving until the evening and then I'm going to see Serenity for the third time.