My Top Ten Songs of all time, at this stage.

So I recently made a cd of my top ten songs of all time. It was quite difficult to do and doesn't really reflect what i've been listening to these last few years because it was an all time list and had to include a couple of songs from my past that mean a lot to me. I had a lot of trouble narrowing down the list to ten, so I included 7 bonus tracks, which are in no particular order, although the top ten is in order. The track listing begins with songs 10 to 1, and then the 7 bonus tracks.

1. 10. Father and Son - Cat Stevens
2. 9. Run To Paradise - The Choirboys
3. 8. Life Is A Highway - Tom Cochrane
4. 7. California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade - The Decemberists
5. 6. Footloose - Kenny Loggins
6. 5. Shine On Me - The Lucksmiths
7. 4. The Shining - Badly Drawn Boy
8. 3. Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
9. 2. The Boy With The Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian
10. 1. Nice Day - The Salteens
BONUS TRACKS
11. Close To Me - The Cure
12. Disco 2000 - Pulp
13. Passenger Side - Wilco
14. Mornings Eleven - The Magic Numbers
15. It's The Nighttime - Josh Rouse
16. Scientists - The Guild League
17. Sister - Sufjan Stevens

If you don't know any of these songs I would recommend giving them a listen. I also recommend making your own top ten list. It's quite difficult to do if you like a lot of music.

Week 2 - My trip

This week was full of work. It felt like it never ended. Working nights is tiring and it feels like I have no spare time to do anything else. I go to sleep late, I get up late, I don’t get a chance to see anyone. There was a highlight during the week though – I had Wednesday off and made it down to the Northcote Social Club to see Gary Olsen from The Ladybug Transistor playing with his Australian backing band. There were 7 up on stage so it was a good complete sound and they played many of my favourite Ladybug Transistor songs. I had a nice meal beforehand and went to Sarah’s place afterwards and played guitar hero for a little while before sleeping on their couch (it’s a quite comfy couch!)

The question i’m getting a lot this week, which is hard to answer is “Did you enjoy your trip?” – Usually not a difficult question, however it is when you had the trip I had. Usually the people asking the question don’t have time for a long answer and are generally expecting ‘it was great’ or ‘awesome’ or ‘it was so great’... the shortest answer i can give is “Didn’t enjoy Africa, enjoyed Europe and London at the time but looking back at my time there makes me depressed”- so obviously that answer usually precedes further questions, however most people are asking in passing and don’t have time for explanations so i have to say ‘it was great’ but i really don’t mean it. Usually I just shrug my shoulders, but most people don’t accept that answer.

This weekend I went out past Ballarat to slightly past the middle of nowhere for a film shoot. We were shooting Troll Bridge. It was a very well organised shoot. I was very impressed with everything about it. The only disappointing thing about was that out of all the crew roles on the set, my role was the one thing I have never done before. I could have done any of the other jobs (except make-up/sfx) but i was given the job of Data transfer guy or something. My job was to transfer the footage from the cameras to a hard drive. Very very exciting. I felt fairly useless pretty much the whole time I was there. On the second day I managed to do a little filming for the making of documentary. I got a couple of good shots, but most of it was fairly average.

And that was my week. How exciting!

Tonight is Oscars night which I am looking forward to. It should be a good night.

Week 1 - The Plan

So i’ve decided to do a weekly blog. Lately I’ve found myself having to answer the same question a lot, to a lot of different people, and I thought, maybe it would be easier if i just wrote it all down and then when i was asked certain things by people I could just say www.glenngreening.blogspot.com.

Not sure how it will work because that would pretty much end any conversation I have fairly abruptly, and maybe being asked the same question over and over again by different people won’t happen all that often in the future. Who knows? Anyway, the idea is to at least start a weekly blog about what I’ve been up to and what’s been happening with me.

So this week people have been asking ‘what’s the plan?’ as i’ve just come back from overseas and am up in the air as to what i am going to do now. I’ve been asked the question so many times lately, which is fine, but it’s annoying when I don’t have an answer to it. I don’t really have a plan. I guess my plan is to figure out a plan?

So at the moment I am staying with Jarrod and Georgia who have been awesome enough to let me stay in their spare room until i find somewhere to live. The plan is to look for a place to live. Today I looked on the internet and i have a big list of places to visit on Monday. I also emailed someone about a share house but I’m still not sure if that’s what i want to do.

Really not much is happening these days, but i’ll try to update this every week if i can remember as i get my life back on track. And if no one reads it, that’s fine. At least it’s something that i can look back on myself if I want to.