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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
2:37 am	silly things I have done... part 32577 Some of you may have seen the Game of Thrones Drinking Game meme do the rounds. Just played it with season 2 ep 6 using overproof Bundy Rum. ummmm.... ummmm.... really should have played with beer... (don't let the correct spelling in this post fool you. Drunk typing is my super power!!) (bad news is I still have rum in my glass... sorta gotta drink it before I go to bed don't I??  I mean I can't pour it back into the bottle - back wash is bad. and if I leave it out I will only get ants... pissed as a fart drunken ants... in the Crab Cave. Which would suck.) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
12:23 am	Official Prude of the Group - pt XIV Hey Kids, was at Book Group tonight, as you do on the first Monday of the month, and talking about Hunger Games, as you do. So one of the guys, Janos, who has yet to see the movie, asks if the actress who played Katniss was a suitable age to match the character, and not some 28 year old pretending to be a teen, cough, Buffy, cough. Somehow this simple question got highjacked by some of the females in our group into a discussion that, since Katniss came from from a poor district where food was nominally scarce, then they thought she was a bit too well endowed for a nominally straving character. HUH?!? I was of course forced to step in with the truism that when you watch the Hunger Games "You are not meant to be looking at her TITS!!" "Oh no", they told me, "if we woman noticed this then it must be a valid point!!" I think maybe I need new female friends :P Speaking of books (but not boobies) I in a semi random piece of cleverness, installed an App called Book Catalogue on my 7.7. It is an app, that (spoiler warning here) catalogues your books by scanning the bar codes and then downloading all the book data from Amazon. WOOOO HOOOO!!! BOOK GEEK HAPPINESS :D I have actually been trying to catalogue my spralling 6 book case plus floor book collection for a few years but my attempts at using Excel sucked completely. Managed to scan in 120 books in between sneezing on all the dust and remembering that maybe I should have actually charged the tablet BEFORE deciding to use it constantly all day. If you are a book geek with an Android device have a lookie. Free App. (Comment on this)
Saturday, May 5th, 2012
10:10 am	semi random update Hmmmm... I more or less prefer to either use LJ when I am drunk at 2am... as ya do... or when I have something randomly funny I want to share, or if there is one of those OMG WTF major moments that needs recording. So at the moment I am actually instead pretty down with the world. Now I don't really want to type all that out as being pretty down with the world and mopping about it on LJ is one of the questions on the 'Are You an EMO?' self help quiz, BUT, I am. Work/new job/getting some new cash flow into my life is not really working out at all for me. After abuot 6 weeks of phone calls, intervews, emails, prodding via emails and generally getting the hopes up the job I was chasing fell through at last moment. I really don't want to have to move interstate but that is unfort where the work is :( sigh. Oh well. Think I might just go out instead today and help overthrow the current government. It's what all the cool kids are doing. (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 28th, 2012
9:50 pm	Bill Shorten - I don't know him and didn't vote for him, HONEST Here in Oz we have a senior government minister called Bill. We also have a long and train wreak waiting to happen type story involving the current Speaker of the House. (who is facing both corruption charges for a long history of dodgy cab charges AND a sexual harrassment case from one of his ex staff members) A few days ago Bill was asked on Sky News what his opinion was on if the Speaker (who under the Oz system of Government is VERY important to the actual running of the entire system) and if the Speaker should step down while all this was being investigated. He then proceeded to produce a reply that looked exactly like a poorly scripted comedy show. - I understand that the Prime Minister's addressed this in a press conference in Turkey the last few hours. I haven't seen what she said but let me said, I support what she said. (stunned moment) - Hang on, you haven't seen what she said? - But I support what my Prime Minister said - But what's your view? - My view is what her view is. Ummmmm.... HUH?!??! I now understand that this has been getting radio airplay in the UK and is all over the papers both their and in the US. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFELLK8htKM&feature=share%27%2C%29 Have a look. It is honestly actually worse then it reads and please please please remember that some Australians and even some Australian MPs are actually not quite as thick as this man. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 25th, 2012
1:45 pm	ANZAC Day Today is ANZAC Day. ( Read more... ) Lest we forget. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 25th, 2012
12:38 am	Politics Okay, I know that politics are one of the big three things you should never talk about in polite company, (the other's being religion and strange medical conditions around your genitals...), but tonight was such a mind blowing moment in Australian politics that it really does need some sort of note recording it. Queensland (ie that bit of Australia above Sydney where the Rum comes from) had a state election today. Now Queensland has always been a bit different to the rest of Australia and lack an upper house to match in with their House of Reps so a little bit different to what you may be used to. Anyway - the defending government was the ALP which held 51 of the 89 seats in the QLD parliament. The LNP had 31 with minor parties and independants making up the rest. To win a seat in Australia you need 50% +1 vote minimum and we do preference voting. Without going into details it means you can come second in the first preferences but still win if enough people who didn't vote for you still prefer you to the other person. This is useful to know as it probably explains how the ALP managed to retain as many seats as they did. The ALP is currently expected to hold, out of the 89 seats, a total of SEVEN. 44 ALP sitting members will be clearing out their offices come Monday. So... sorry for boring you with politics but you just don't see that sort of voter result much these days (okay, you NEVER see that sort of destruction to a major sitting polictical party short of physical violent revolution) and to not record at least SOMETHING in the LJ for the histroy books would be an understatement of occasion. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
10:27 pm	The Spoiler Games! This arvo I went off and saw The Hunger Games. Felt a bit creepy old man as not only did I go on the day of the movie's release, but I also went to the 4pm screening (or, STRAIGHT AFTER SCHOOL) for what is after all a movie based on a 'young adult' novel. Think I was 3rd oldest in there but there were a bucket load of people still in their school uniforms. So... What part of SPOILER don't you understand??? You have been warned... Here is, in great detail, the bits they changed from the book... [Spoiler (click to open)] So, what was changed from the novel and how much of that actually worked? Well first up there is the stuff that needed to be added. The book has Katniss as the first person narrator, filling us in with back story as required via her internal monologue. Short of having Miss Lawrence constantly talking to herself the entire movie, I accept some changes needed to be made. This seems to be excuse for Gamemaster Silly Beard, a minor none speaking part in the book as well as the much expanded role for Caesar the game host. Fair enough. Let's move on. What didn't come across was that while the Districts were clearly oppressed, so to was most of the Capital, outwardly pampered and spoilt but inwardly controlled as well by the powers that alternately control the empire. Gone is the sub-plot with red haired Avox, the servant slave in the Capital who was pushed for rebellion by having her tongue removed and who Katniss once briefly met in the woods near District 12 but was unable and unwilling to try and help. Gamemaster Silly Beard is punished at the end for his failure to keep the games running as 'planned' but apart from that there is little to imply that the citizens of the Capital are just as oppressed and fearful as the people of the Districts. Elizabeth Banks, who plays the airheadish Effie Trinket commented in an interview that she believed her character deep down was very afraid, reinforcing the theme of complete oppression present in the novels, but apart from that there is very little to imply that the entire population of the Capital are nothing more then bloodthirsty heartless arseholes. Still, two hours of movie so you have to use a bit of shorthand. So what was changed that I felt could have been closer to the books? Mainly the deaths. Let's take Rue for to start with. She is the 12 year old female tribute from District 11, another of the poorer districts who befriends and teams up with Katniss mid way through the games. At that stage of the games the other living tributes are effectively the team of cruel 'Careers' and the cunning but ultimately tragic Foxface. Katniss, in a motivation skimmed over in the movie, has just gone off to destroy the Careers huge stack of food, yet returns to find that Rue has been trapped by the boy from District One who fatally wounds her in front of Katniss's eyes before himself being killed by one of Katniss's arrows. That's in the book. In the movie Katniss manages to cut Rue out from under the net before District One boy appears and almost accidentally kills Rue with a mis-thrown spear. It is almost an “Opps, sorry Rue, I was aiming at the other girl” moment in the movie which is in complete counterpoint to the way the novel has District One set out to net trap and then stab to kill a 12 year old girl. Just run those last eight words past yourself again. This is the part in the novel where it is brutally reinforced that Katniss is not a killer and has been forced into the games where as the Careers volunteered for these games and actually enjoy it. (Also glossed is the motivation for destroying the Careers food. In the book Katniss and Rue, being from the poorer Districts, knew how to hunt food to survive. The Careers, front the 'rich' Districts and only skilled in cruelty and murder did not. In the book it is a clear proactive plan by Katniss and Rue to try and even the odds and actually win the game, while in the movie it just seems like something to do for the afternoon. Considering a one line info dump of 'They don't know how to hunt, without their food they will starve' could of explained it all I was a little upset.) Most of the cruelty of the Careers is skimmed. We see Cato kill the failed camp guard from District Three and see Clove threaten to mutilate Katniss. We also see the Careers gloating after ambushing camp fire girl from District 8 but while totally ignoring an important plot point from the novel. Peeta kills her. When the cannon does not sound to confirm the death of the girl from District 8, Peeta is the one who goes back to make sure she is dead. Peeta. The lovable baker boy. The entire Peeta/Katniss ship thing (see that? I used a Fan Word!! Nuk Nuk) doesn't come across as well in the movie. In the novel Katniss goes from not trusting him, to knowing him better, to believing he declared love to be a ploy before the betrayal of seeing Peeta running with the Careers. This is why it is so important the moment he comes back and tells her to run after the wasp attack. Sickened herself by the wasp stings he had her completely at his mercy yet displays his true feelings, an act made more selfless by the fact that Katniss saw Cato right behind Peeta who would no doubt laugh off Peeta's little betrayal of the Careers with nothing more then a casual joke and, well, trying to kill him with a sword. All this is important as when the Gamemasters chance the rules, Katniss knows that not only can she trust Peeta, but also that he is currently badly wounded and needs her help. The whole romance did seem rushed. Book Katniss spends several days trying to stop Peeta's fever, leading her to resort to sleeping drug him so she could go to the blatant trap of 'The Feast' so she could recover the drugs needed to save his life without him trying to stop her. It is that same, while maybe not 'love', but at least deep concern for Peeta that made the end battle with Cato all the more a race against time. Book Peeta was slowly bleeding to death from Cato's final knife wound and Katniss desperately needed the games to end in order to save Peeta's life. When the Gamemasters change the rules again and demand that only one can live, the fact that Peeta is dying make Katniss's decision for them both to eat the poison berries all the more selfless and powerful. Yet.. skipped. Pity. Few other disappointments. The death of Foxface was underdone. In the book her accidental death from stealing the poison berries in order to stay alive actually felt deeper then the murder of Rue, yet in the movie it was more 'oh by the way, the Ranga's dead'. Strange too was the semi disappearance of Thresh, the powerfully strong boy from District 11. In the book he is killed after an off-screen struggle with Cato, leaving Katniss knowing their likely final foe is not someone who can be reasoned or bargained with. In movie he dies out of sequence with Foxface in almost a tidy up the loose ends footnote. So, 1200 words later, did I like it? Yes. Much better then John Carter (Bore Lord of Mars), the previous movie I saw at the cinemas, and rather well directed. Yet, and while I DO realise that the book is not the movie and anyone thinking that a book equals a movie with the page numbers removed is ignoring the fact that both are completely different mediums of story telling. So go see it, if nothing else you don't want to be upstaged by school kids at the next trivia night :) (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
12:36 pm	Did you REALLY just say that to me?!? I was out last night, as you do, in my happy little grungy punk alt rock pub happy place 'The Crown and Anchor' doing my laid back relaxed no causing any trouble type personna thing at the bar. As I do. The Crank is my happy place. It is laid back. You don't get agro. It has a band room where you can catch local scene bands for no cover changed. It (and this is often the important bit) is open till 4am. Anyway, girl comes up next to me at the bar to order some drinks for her and her friends and honestly throws me the following phrase; "Do you come here often?" Ummmm.... ummm... WHAT?!?! "well, yeah, a fair bit" "Oh I asked cause you were singing to this song so I thought you must come here alot" "Ummm... this is The Clash" (blank look) "They have London Calling on random repeat. The Clash is one of the big UK punk bands from the late 70s. This is one of their biggest albums." (blank look) "HELP!!!" It was a little random but I am still gobsmacked she actually used "Do you come here often?" as an openner! (Comment on this)
Friday, March 16th, 2012
2:14 pm	Interviews Had a job interview Wednesday. Rather promising really. Got some unexpected bonus points when they discovered I had 2 years of living and working 'in the mines' (which in Australia translates as 'middle of nowhere'). That was of course back last century and was buried a bit deep in my CV so I don't think they had noticed it before. Since I was being interviewed by a company that supplies to the mining industry their little eyes lit up when I told them. YA. Still, it is funny doing that whole talk out your arse interview thing. I got asked at one stage (it was a set question so I don't blame the interview people) "What attracted you to apply with our company?" Now remember I got made redundant and haven't worked since end of October so my the little voice in my head is going... THE MONEY! THE MONEY! THE MONEY! THE MONEY! I HAVEN'T WORKED FOR FOUR MONTHS AND ARE APPLYING FOR EVERYTHING! THE MONEY! THE MONEY! THE MONEY! "Well being a mechanical draftsman I have always enjoyed the challenge and reward of seeing the physical results..." THE MONEY THE MONEY THE MONEY!!! So hopefully they will call me back for the second round of interviews and all that. See what happens :) (3 Comments |Comment on this)
2:03 pm	art advice Hey Kids, yesterday I finally got around to doing what I have wanted to do for a while and purchased myself some nice 220gsn art paper and some pens. YA! Since I have only a vague idea what I want to do - I just know I want to do it - I messaged one of my proffessional comic artist friends for some art advice. Here is what he replied... To be honest I'd get myself some nice pencils and work with those for a while. You can get water soluble ones that allow you to do aquarelle on top if you like. Keep it light and quick. Try drawing nude models, that's fun , you learn a lot and it's a fab excuse to sit and look at naked ladies for a few hours. Send me some when you're done. Have fun. Here is what I got out of his reply... Text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text NUDE MODELS text text text text text text text text NAKED LADIES text text text text text text text text HAVE FUN. Hey, *I* can be shallow :) (truth be told however, since from pervious posts it has been established I am the "Prude of the Group" I have no real idea where even to start (other then enrolling in a formal lession). I mean not really the thing you can casually ask your gal pals to do just off the cuff - "Hey Platonic Female Friend, I have some new art paper and pens. Fancy getting naked for me later?" (Yeah.... NO. Don't really see that happening to be honest. Looks like I will just stick to drawing my desk toys for a few more months instead :P ) (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
3:11 am	oh... sucks to be me... Well all my internet friends, word on the streets is that Australia is now a, ENEMY OF THE INTERNET!!! http://www.news.com.au/technology/internet-filter/enemy-of-the-internet-australia-under-surveillance-for-violating-online-freedoms/story-fn5j66db-1226298203269 Reporters without Borders have placed my country on the watch list of potential fascist internet dictatorships because MY GOVERNMENT thinks they know what is best for us to surf on the net. What makes this even more scary is that this is BEFORE the Finkenstien report into Australian media gets acted on. That wonderful 400 page document, pushed by Greens leader Bob Brown as part of his media inquirey, actually recommends that any online news publication, INCLUDING PERSONAL BLOGS, will be subject to government regulation if they recieve over 15000 hits per year. Now 15000 hits sounds like a lot but in real terms once you take out all the spam bots and 'opps, wrong website' this means basically if you have ONE regular reader who reads your blog ONCE per day, the Australian Government will be able to regulate what you say. FACT. Scary, horrible, oppressive but still hard cold fact. For the record I voted for the other mob and when they come for me, I am going down kicking and screaming. Screw you Gillard. You can have my freedom to think and say what I want when you dump me in an unmarked grave. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 12th, 2012
11:20 pm	Mars is sorta boring... which explains how all the canals got drained... Hey Kids, went off today to go see John Carter. Rather unempressed really. Bit of a weird mismash of a movie that never really seemed to work out exactly what it wanted to be or how serious is was going to take itself. Only read book 8 of the Barsoom series so not sure exactly how annoyed the purists are going to be. Still, does anyone read Edgar Rice Barrows these days anyway? Or is he not hip enough for those wacky crazy Rowling/Meyer kiddlings. Speaking of which, I decided to jump on the Hunger Games bandwagon but was put off by the trade paperback having a massive Stephenie Meyer quote on the cover. Fortunately my friendly neighbourhood bookseller (pat pend) was able to supply me with the movie tie in edition and hence 'get me one without Stephenie Meyer on the cover - I have street cred to live down to' as requested :D (all I need to do now is read it...) I have also gotten into a couple of webcomics recently. Questionable Content - which is full of main characters who are complete pricks you wouldn't cross the road to piss on normally. They are those indie cool kids who hang around in a little cliche at their coffee shop being rude to each other and strangers (cause Sass is cool (?!)) talking about how much they are into bands (but only once in the entire run of the series going to a live gig - and that the solo acousitic gig of one of the main characters) and hooking up and down with each other (in between giving each other snide sexual harrassment jokes cause like hey, Sass is cool, right?). The lead female is basically a cow and the lead male crosses between an annoyingly wet metrosexual and sex obsessed tosser and I hated all the characters so much I read the entire 2140 back pages in two and a half days. (Okay, they are oddly endearing characters and Yelling Bird (he's a bird, he yells) is piss funny.) Also made the mistake of getting into Girl Genius and now Agatha is my new fictional character crush and I completely want to have her babies :D (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
2:26 pm	What??! Too soon?? Was at our monthly Book Group last night and had the following brief interjection... J - talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk and Stephen King who I of course think is the best thing on wheels... Muddy - Or under them... Does that make me a bad person? :) (Comment on this)
Monday, March 5th, 2012
12:39 am	bugger.... Ever have those moments when you are tired and know you REALLY should goto bed... but the act of actually getting up out of the computer chair is just too much like hard work... cause ya tired... ? Yeah... :P (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, March 4th, 2012
4:48 pm	Slaughterhouse 5 Since my network connection was playing up last night (although strangely not the wifi coming from the same modem... go figure) and I had already spent my social/drinking budget for the week I stayed in and read instead. Knocked off Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse 5', partly because the theme of the month for The Bookclub with No Name (ask for us by name :P) (or whatever we call outselves) was to go read a sci-fi/fantasy 'Classic' and partly because I always wanted to read it. Now S5 (which makes it sounds like a boy band so maybe I wont use that abbreviation anymore...) is regarded as a classic anti-war piece and regularly gets voted in the Top X books of all time. It is, to put it loosely, 'A Classic'. During the last months of WW2 in Europe the German city of Dresden was heavily bombed by both the RAF and USAAF over three days causing massive damage (mainly from the firestorm created on the first night) and killing a massive amount of people. Vonnegut, as an American POW, was there at the time and from these first hand experiences of the horrors of total war many of the themes of this novel are meant to be drawn. So... What did I learn? Ummmm... Well it seems the basic message to take away from this book is that despite what horrors you will be forced to experience in your life, there is no real reason to be concerned. Free will is a myth, what happens has/is/will always happen and you will end up in an alien zoo shagging a smoking hot movie star regardless. I am sure I am probably missing something but with a book where the main character is unstuck in time (and largely unstuck in the ability to get his readers to emote with him), we discover that you cannot change your future anymore then you can change your past, so just enjoy the good bits (which seem to be hanging out in an alien zoo shagging movie stars and playing on the tire swing). Vonnegut has a good and colourful turn of phrase but I am either missing something REALLY fundamental or the people who vote of these 'best novel of time' surveys are right elitist wankers. (Comment on this)
4:11 pm	Me, remember me? The person I want to be and the person they think I am... I'm back. Okay I didn't go away it is just one of those things where you suddenly remember you haven't updated LJ in too long. Still not working which is still slowly destroying the quality of my headspace. Adelaide just seems to have no development and is really becoming a rust belt. Annoying thing is there are well paying contract jobs interstate that I could probably walk into... but... interstate... (which to put into scale for you non Aussie types, me in Sunny Adelaide getting a gig in Brisbane is about the same as leaving your London home to go work in Vienna but without the bonus of at least being able to drink decent beer) So... dunno... Anyway, two weekends ago I was walking home about 4am Sunday morning (as you do) in a state that could perhaps loosely be described as OFF MY FACE (okay, maybe not that bad, but more then a little drunk). Anyway, going through one of the parklands we have here in Sunny Adelaide on the way back to the CrabCave and came across a guy face down on the grass. So part of me is thinking, 'drunk guy, whatever' but another part is thinking 'ya know... what if he's not?' So there was a group of cops just finishing up with a random breath station just on the next street so I got one of them to help me check, just in case. And I was right the first time, he was fine and I kept walking home. Think was, it was one of those times when random fate asks you the question of 'are you the sort of person you think you are? And is that person the sort that you want to be?' Which for me is the sort of person who does pay attention and doesn't ignore other people - and it seems I passed. Which was nice. So I guess that also helped the karma stick for last Friday. I was out BandSlutting (as I am want) (Sunnies, Ricochet Pete, Fluffy, Isolation Valve and the fill in girl who's name escapes me who did some solo acoustic) which was fun (well apart from the fact that Ennio Morricone was ALSO in town that night...). So anyway, 2012 is one of those 'milestone' birthday years for me and since I am probably expected to do SOMETHING for it I am either going to flee the country and hang in Europe OR try and cash in all my favours for all the bands I am friends with and get all my favourite bands to gig on the same night. So I am chatting with Shannon about it and how I've got a (cough) 'milestone' coming up and casually sounding out if it was a realistic idea or not and she asked in all honesty if I was turning 30. Ummm.... YES!!!! 30!!! DEFINATELY TURNING 30!!!! :D Which, added on to the convo I had had earlier, did prove that Karma isn't always a bitch and can sometimes buy you flowers. We were discussing cult 70s-80s Oz TV show 'Count Down' (which was sort of like Top of the Pops with lower budget and a much cheeser host) in the context of 'you must know this song, you grew up with CountDown didn't you??' I didn't so used the throw away excuse, 'I can't remember it. I did a lot of drugs during the 70s' 'What?! How does that work? You would have been born in what, 78??' So there you go boys and girls, Karma might not help you find a new job, but it does hide the wrinkles :D (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
12:20 pm	dripping with confidence... sorta... Hey Kids, I have a job interview in just under 3 hours. Now on the scale of things this is a 'good thing(tm)' as I have not been working since end of October and probably DO need to get back out there and get some cash coming in to the Crabcave. However I am not completely excited about all this. I was rung Monday about coming in for this interview and while the woman I spoke to on the phone is not likely to be the person I will be working under or even involved in the interview process it was the following requests that have put me on the back foot. "Can you bring in your qualifications and some examples of your work" Okay, how about NO. First up my 'qualifications' are an Advanced Certificate in Engineering which dates back to 94 or 95. It is not a degree course and effectively proves I have the same theoretical skill base as a first year degree student. Now my 'profession' is Design Draftsman, something little bit of patchment (which I have somewhere...) does not actually qualify me for. Producting a 18 year old TAFE patchment does not prove I have the skills and experience to produce, check and sign drawings. 16 years of checkable job history does that. Then there is that 'can you bring in examples of your work' request. Well no I can't because I don't have any because I don't, in any sense of the word, OWN any of it. Everything I did in the last 9 years remains the property of either my employer or our customer. The work I did before that remains the property of the people I was working for then and so on and so on until you get back to the stage of the skinny 20 something who bummed out of his engineering degree and was wondering just what the f. he was going to do with his life. So no I am bringing in a collection of engineering drawings I have no right to own and I am not dragging out a patchement that is so irrelevent to my professional life that I don't even refer to it anymore (or ummm... even know exactly where it is) so yeah... not completely excited about this interview. Still, see how it goes and see what sort of money they are talking. I know that sounds snobby but you are only as well paid as your last job so you need to be VERY careful about accepting lower paying jobs. One you are not getting paid as much and two if you are not getting paid that much then new employers decided you can't be that good to start with... so don't pay you. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 18th, 2012
11:48 am	Who's Laughing Now! As you know I got myself a Dyson hand held vacuum last week and as a result, decided to store it in the bathroom. "But why Muddy?" they asked, "Why are you storing a vacuum in the bathroom" "Well", I answered, "just in case the mirror on the back of the bathroom door should decided to plunge to it's death, shattering into thousands of bare feet shreading pieces with a colossal noice, at the same time when I would be sitting shoeless on the toilet" How they laughed. WELL WHO'S LAUGHING NOW!?!?!! (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
1:23 am	Dresden Dolls and some stuff that sucks Every so often all those collections of strange pub and live music scene mates really come up with the goods. Like today. Got woken up (after, ummm... sleeping in all morning after playing computer games till 4am) by a txt message... "free show by the dresden dolls at the new tuxedo cat, today at 3pm" Which considering their offical Adelaide show was completely sold out just happens to be, well, REALLY COOL!!!! It was good fun. Only a brief 40 mins or so as they were running off to sound check at their real gig and the crowd was a little bit too "OMG!!!! WE HEART YOU DRESDEN DOLLS!!!" types for my cynical trash/punk/screamo/rock likings but it was a FREE SECERT UNLISTED GIG!! Amanda Palmer is amazingly amazing (I HEART YOU AMANDA PALMER!!) and has this commanding stage presents that just drips with warmth at the same time. And funny. Being middle of day at a venue that still doesn't have it's license it was an all ages gig by default to such an extent that these three or four, four or five year old (they were young and short okay, I am not good with ages of short people) girls in their little fairy outfits got brought up to the side of stage where they could see better by their parents. And then on the stage. So we then have the Dresden Dolls plus their two piece support act about to do a song about... well, stuff that takes a long time to explain even to open minded adults. "Ummm, you children just do some slow interpertive dance while we sing this, okay?" Good fun. Ya! Some photos on FB. In other news I got myself a new Dyson vacuum yesterday. As you do. Cause ummm... vacuums are cool and adult and I am so much more mature then you and okay I just got really sick of emptying sodding vacuum bags and giving myself hayfever attacks. So anyway, cordless Dyson vacuum. I get it home, unpack it out the box and suddenly discover that it is shipped pre-charged. So yeah, with a Dyson you can start sucking straight out the box without having to wait 4 hours charging time first!!! Sad thing is I WAS actually excited about that discovery. :P (Comment on this)
Monday, January 2nd, 2012
1:59 am	some things you just can't explain to others... Hey kids, First day of 2012 and your LJ hero managed to wake up with massive and painful muscle cramps in his left calve (not completely uncommon for me unfortunately, they f.king hurt, we have no idea how they occur and take the best part of a week to loosen up properly again) AND I have also managed 'somehow' to mess up my shoulder. So yeah, things you can't explain, or more to the point, probably shouldn't even bother attempting... - Muddy?! How ya been? How was your New Years? - Not bad, but I woke up and my shoulder is killing me. No idea how I did that. - No idea huh? Drink much last night did we? - Well yeah, it was New Years... - And now you can't remember...?? Sigh, you can see how that is going to end can't you? :P For the record I was actually reasonally boring last night. By back tracking how much cash I had left I am pretty sure I had 7 pints (metric pints - 485mls) plus a pre-drink before I left home and the worse thing I did was purchase most of the Hungry Jacks menu for the walk home at 4am. Which I guess sort of brings one to another delemma I am sure we have all faced at one drunken time or another during a walk home. Halfway home and walking along the each of the lovely Adelaide parks surrounding Adelaide Oval (cause that is near where I live) I accidently (HONEST) encountted a couple doing what you do when you are hot for each other, drunk and a long way from a bedroom. As you do. So she waved and I sorta politely waved back and kept walking. Problem was that at that same moment I also sorta needed to use a bathroom, cough, tree. So we have a pee in the park vs a root in the reserve. Both of which you are not actually MEANT to be doing in these civilised metropoli. So who gets to pull rank? "Excuse me! Do you two mind not playing porn star?! I am TRYING to urinate here!!" Bodes well for the new year doesn't it? :P (1 Comment |Comment on this)