Jeremy's Journal

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:16:54 GMT

I thought this was as good a reason to break my posting drought as any...

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Eleventh He Reaches London's debut album 'The Good Fight For Harmony' has been nominated for album of the year at http://sonicfrontiers.net/php/2006.php.

We would appreciate it if you took the time to vote for us!

Gracias muchachos!

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Things aren't too shabby. All over the fucking place, but generally not too shabby. Summertime, work, christmas soon, writing music, ISIS in February (oooooooooooh!), family, et cetera.

Panda bites drunk, drunk bites back

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:25:34 GMT

A DRUNK Chinese tourist bit a panda at the Beijing Zoo after the animal attacked him when he jumped into the enclosure and tried to hug it.

Zhang Xinyan had drunk four pitchers of beer at a restaurant before "stumbling to the zoo" nearby and stopping off at the pen holding a sleeping six-year-old male panda, Gu Gu, on Tuesday.
"He felt a sudden urge to touch the panda with his hand" and jumped over a waist-high railing down into the enclosure, the Beijing Morning Post said. "When he got closer and was undiscovered, he reached out to hug it."

Startled, Gu Gu bit Zhang in the right leg. Zhang, 35, got angry and kicked the panda, who then bit his other leg. A tussle ensued.

"I bit the fellow in the back," Zhang was quoted as saying in the newspaper. "Its skin was quite thick."

Other tourists yelled for a zookeeper, who soon got the panda under control by spraying it with water, reports said. Zhang was hospitalised.

Newspaper photographs showed Zhang lying on a hospital bed with blood-soaked bandages and several seams of stitches running down his leg.

Ye Mingxia, a spokeswoman for the Beijing Zoo, said Gu Gu was "healthy and uninjured".

source: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20456935-13762,00.html

Metal Council Convenes To Discuss 'Metal Hand Sign' Abuse

Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:21:27 GMT

VATNAJÖKULL GLACIER, ICELAND — In an emergency session Tuesday, members of the Supreme Metal Council strongly condemned the increasing use of the metal hand sign in lay society, claiming that its meaning has become perverted by overuse.

"The metal sign, or 'sign of the goat,' has all but lost its impact as a token of respectful recognition for something truly 'rocking' or 'metal,'" SMC president Terence "Geezer" Butler said. According to Butler, members are upset that their sacred gesture is being used to acknowledge and celebrate "favorable but clearly non-metal events."

"We have all heard the reports of people using it to greet their in-laws, or after starting their lawn mowers with a single pull," Butler said. "But recently it was brought to our attention that someone used the gesture in a Texas convenience store after snagging the last box of carrot cakes. This simply won't do."

Formed in 1972 and comprising 12 of the most revered leaders of the metal community, the council meets annually in its majestic hall atop Vatnajökull, Iceland's largest glacier, to discuss metal affairs. The SMC convened for a special session after Nikki Sixx, Overlord Of Glam Metal Affairs, was sent hard photographic evidence of metal-sign abuse across the nation. Sixx's fellow high priests said they were "shocked," calling it "one of the most serious affronts to metal's integrity since the rise of rap-metal in the late 1990s."

"I remember a time not long ago when the Devil Horns were reserved for only the most righteous of person, deed, or riff," Grand Elder Lemmy Kilmister said. "To see someone throwing the horns to his mate at the launderette because the clothes dryer came to a full stop just as he finished reading his copy of Circus... It breaks my heart."

Nodding in silent agreement were council members Adalwolfa, a curvaceous Frank Frazetta-drawn Teutonic she-warrior magically brought to life by the council, and the spirit of slain Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott.

Compounding the problem, Sixx said, is the fact that many people who use the sign are not recognized members of the Metal Roster, the list of true metal acolytes engraved in medieval calligraphy on gleaming pages of steel.

"This man here, who invokes the sign merely to indicate his joy that his microwave popcorn is done: He is not metal," Sixx said. "We have it on good authority that he prefers the music of Tim McGraw and that the magic word of 'Zoso' has never passed his lips."

The council discussed several harsh punishments to deter further metal-sign abuse. Paulo Pinto, bassist for the Brazilian thrash-metal band Sepultura and Overlord Of International Metal Affairs, suggested that the hand of a suspected signer should be immediately cut off. A contingency of death rockers from Gothenburg, Sweden recommended that any sign abuser, or anyone who is not sufficiently metal, should be forced to eat his severed hand while having his eyeballs burned with a superheated metal crucifix, and then be slowly skinned alive.

More charitable members, such as former Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, suggested that "a helpful list of guidelines could educate others, allowing them to distinguish between metal and non-metal occurrences."

"A lot of people who incorrectly make the sign have traces of metal in their hearts and minds, they just need the proper direction," Mustaine said. "Remember that many are outcasts and losers. To punish them further is to destroy the future of metal."

Until the council decides what course of action to adopt, Butler said he believes that a simple rule of thumb will help reduce the incidence of metal-sign abuse.

"If your head is neither banging nor thrashing, you should not be throwing the sign," Butler said. "It's that simple."

Yet, in a later interview in his private, skull-bedecked chambers, Butler expressed the concern that the problem has grown too widespread for even the mighty SMC to solve. He said he worries that metal standards have been on the decline for so long that few have any clear idea as to what is metal and what is not. The SMC has experienced deep ideological rifts in the past that have affected its ability to make strong decisions, most notably during the lengthy trial and eventual sentencing of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, who was indicted in 2004 on charges of cutting his hair, pussing out on Napster, and contributing to the original motion-picture soundtrack of Mission: Impossible 2.

"To this day, there are many on the council who deeply resent the presence of [Poison guitarist] C.C. DeVille,'" Butler said. "In fact, so do I. Despite our differences, the council still remains the sole arbitrator of all things metal. We must get through to those who wantonly abuse the sign of the goat. They must be informed that watering down the sign's meaning will result in serious consequences."

Should the abuse continue, Butler said the council "will defer the matter to Satan."

source: http://www.theonion.com/content/node/42365

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:00:18 GMT

Snaaaaacks.

I need some time.

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:37:51 GMT

While I am feeling demoralised, exhausted, on the verge of breaking, moody, anxious, unfit, and so on...I'm ridiculously excited. Maybe it's the caffeine.

I am excited for reasons such as the following:

a) On Saturday Mampi Swift is going to bring some much-needed cheese.
b) My birthday is in a couple of weeks.
c) I have emerged from self-induced hibernation.
d) Quiet Storm last weekend was a breath of fresh air for Perth.
e) The recording of 2 new FTW tracks is underway, adding to the 4 we've recorded already.
f) Feeling rejuvenated after a long break from EHRL stuff. We are going to ensure our new stuff eclipses all our previous material.
g) I am leaving in a couple of weeks. I love home, but I can't wait to get away.
h) When away, I will be visiting Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Bordeaux, Sarlat and London.
i) I am travelling with Tina.
j) Along the way, I will be meeting up with my parents, my brother and his girlfriend, and my sister.

That's more than enough reason to be excited.

sunday night...

Mon, 29 May 2006 16:15:55 GMT

Is anyone going to see Low at the Rosemount this Sunday....?

I can't decide whether to save the money for Europe or not.

Sat, 27 May 2006 03:11:04 GMT

Tonight - Fool The World farewell show!

This will probably be our final show until very late this year, if not next year. Dino is off to plant his seed in Japan and Europe.

Come down to Heat tonight.

FOOL THE WORLD
with Bleeding Through (USA) & Combined Deathtoll
Heat Nightclub (187 Stirling Street)
Doors open 8pm
$30 entry

ball-biting madness!

Tue, 23 May 2006 06:43:34 GMT

Woman bit my penis, says cop
By Glenis Green
The Courier Mail
May 23, 2006

AFTER allegedly being punched, kicked, bitten and headbutted repeatedly by a writhing, naked woman he was trying to detain, Constable Anthony Jennings was distracted for just a moment as the door opened on the prison van.

But that was all it took. As the Constable relaxed his grip on his accused attacker, she lunged and allegedly bit him on his penis.
"I felt an excruciating pain on the end of my penis and as I looked down she had her head over the top of my groin and she was biting," Constable Jennings told the Maroochydore District Court on the Sunshine Coast yesterday.

He was giving evidence on the first day of trial proceedings against Maria Klaus, 38, of Maroochydore, who is facing two counts of serious assault of a police officer while he was executing his duties. Ms Klaus has pleaded not guilty to both charges.

The tale of the violent end to Constable Jennings's call out to a domestic disturbance in a block of units about 5.30pm on June 12 last year was related to the court by Crown Prosecutor John Allen in his opening address to the jury.

The court was told that Constable Jennings and his partner, Senior-Constable Leonie Scott, were invited to enter the Beach Parade unit by a man, Kevin Hughes, believed to be Ms Klaus's partner. There they met a wet, aggressive Ms Klaus – wearing only a towel – as she apparently emerged from the shower.

Constable Jennings, 43, said Ms Klaus became agitated when asked to put on some clothes while she talked to police and had shoved Mr Hughes when he suggested she calm down.
Constable Jennings said as he stepped between Ms Klaus and Mr Hughes, Ms Klaus grabbed the arm of a three-year-old girl who had appeared and swung her to the floor behind her.

He told the court that when the little girl got up and Ms Klaus repeated the action he stepped forward to restrain her.

"Klaus started to punch and kick and that sort of stuff and the towel just got dragged off . . . she was wet and she was naked and I couldn't get a grip anywhere," he said.

Constable Jennings said at one point Ms Klaus had him clutched tightly by his collar and tie. She was headbutting him, trying to bite his face and head and "gnashing her teeth and at some point she bit my left forearm".

"She was yelling at me that she was going to get my balls."

Constable Jennings told the court he had sustained a cut lip, a chipped tooth, bruised shoulder and bitten forearm. The court heard that eventually the two officers handcuffed Ms Klaus, who continued to refuse to put clothes on.

Constable Jennings said as he looked up to see where to guide Ms Klaus into the police van, she bit him on the penis.

"I was in a lot of pain and shock and I screamed and threw my weight on her and dropped her to the ground," he said.

Constable Jennings said he later checked inside his trousers "and everything seemed okay".

In cross-examination, barrister Steve Courtney, for Ms Klaus, questioned Constable Jennings about police duty under the requirements of the Domestic and Family Violence Protection Act. The trial continues today.

TRIUMPH!

Sun, 21 May 2006 08:48:26 GMT

Sun, 14 May 2006 16:00:07 GMT

Ooooeeerrrr.

Just can't get started.

almost time for a new calendar...

Thu, 29 Dec 2005 14:17:40 GMT

I don't remember the last time I properly wrote in this thing. Too long ago. It seems I can't/won't find the time.

There's so much to say, none of which I can actually be bothered saying.

I'm doing okay. The festive season is here, which to me usually means a heap of positives balancing out a heap of negatives, and equaling nothing too significant...the end of another year I guess.

I never thought I would enjoy a break from band stuff this much. No rehearsals, no shows. Fantastic. As much as I love it, I have been feeling a little burnt out from everything. Although it has been a very productive and satisfying year for me and my co-conspirators musically, it has also been very grueling. I'm tired...really fucking tired.

Many good times have come and gone since I last updated this journal. I've been through some pretty heavy self-induced shit, I've wallowed in my own filthy stench for periods here and there, I've managed to save a shitload of money. I've continued to fuel my insatiable appetite for denim and shoes. I'm waiting on some dope new Pony shoes Tina is getting me for Christmas.

So I've been trying to compile a list of my favourite records for the year. It is proving impossible. I may or may not attempt to condense this list later on, but for now, here are my favourite 86 records of the year. Yes, eighty-six. Listen to them, they are good. I included my own band for good (read: self-indulgent) measure.

13 & God - Self-Titled
A Northern Chorus - Bitter Hands Resign
A Silver Mt. Zion - Horses In The Sky
Abandon - In Reality We Suffer
Adam Beyer - Fabric 22
Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire And Knives
Akron/Family - Self-Titled
Amon Tobin - Chaos Theory: Splinter Cell 3
Annie - DJ Kicks
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die
Arsis - A Diamond For Disease
Audion - Suckfish
Bear vs Shark - Terrorhawk
Behemoth - Demigod
Black Mountain - Self-Titled
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis
Boards Of Canada – The Campfire Headphase
Blue Monday - Rewritten
Breakbeat Elite - Mixed By Shut Up And Dance & Aquasky
Buried Inside - Chronoclast
Calibre - Second Sun
Calyx - No Turning Back
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
Coheed And Cambria - Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through The Eyes of Madness
Dälek - Absence
Dead Meadow - Feathers
Deadbeat - New World Observer
Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
Diplo - FabricLive 24
DJ /Rupture - Low Income Tomorrowland
Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht
Doomriders - Black Thunder
Earth - Hex (Or Printing In The Infernal Method)
Edan - Beauty And The Beat
Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight For Harmony
Eluvium - Talk Amongst The Trees
Erol Alkan - A Bugged Out Mix/A Bugged In Selection
Four Tet - Everything Ecstatic
General Midi - Midi Style
Gorgoroth - Unter Den Flugeln Von Satan
Hate Eternal - I, Monarch
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Volume 2
Influx UK - 2 Million And Rising
Ivan Smagghe - Fabric 23
Jaga Jazzist - What We Must
Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch
James Zabiela - Utilities
Jesu - Self-Titled
Kano - Home Sweet Home
Kentaro - On The Wheels Of Solid Steel
Klute - No One's Listening Anymore
Lali Puna - I Thought I Was Over That
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
M.I.A. - Arular
Maximo Park - A Certain Trigger
Meat Katie - FabricLive 21
Minus The Bear - Menos El Oso
Modern Life Is War - Witness
Monolake - Polygon Cities
Murcof - Rememberanza
Naglfar - Pariah
Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
Nu:Tone - Brave Nu World
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Origin - Echoes Of Decimation
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Prefuse 73 - Surrounded By Silence
Renaissance Presents Therapy Sessions Volume 2 - Mixed By Dave Seaman And Luke Chable
Rob Da Bank - Fabric 24
Roll Deep - In At The Deep End
Roots Manuva - Awfully Deep
Sasha - Fundacion NYC
Scratch Perverts - FabricLive 22
Sigur Ros - Takk
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise
Sunn 0))) - Black One
Superpitcher - Today
The Black Dahlia Murder - Miasma
The Books - Lost And Safe
The Decemberists - Picaresque
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute
Vex'd - Degenerate

music to suit your mood

Tue, 08 Nov 2005 15:03:35 GMT

When I am feeling paranoid, cold, edgy and distant, I tend to listen to music that reflects that mood. Content to wallow? Maybe, sometimes. Or, on the other hand, maybe it is because I am very aware of my likely responses to certain stimuli - for if a 'happy' song were to find its way out of these headphones and into my ears, they would probably be punched off my head in frustration.

I slept today. It was the first time I can remember in over 5 years (and since I was a complete fucking mess) that I have slept, simply so I didn't have to be awake. Not a good sign, methinks.

A million thoughts are running around my head, making shrieking metallic noises as they bounce from one side to another. I would love to get them all out and make a note of them, but I really can't be bothered. Must sleep.

Night.

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 05:20:01 GMT

I don't remember the last time I did a proper update of this thing. So here goes...

I am ok. Things are ok. Things are going to be ok. So I tell myself. But behind the facade, I am fucking miserable at the moment. I do not, can not understand how or why I treat myself the way I do. I despise violence, but if someone else were to treat me the way I treat myself, I would probably go for the old 'fork in the eye'.

I just can't seem to get going these days. In regards to the so-designated 'important' things, at least. I feel like I've wasted a year. And in many respects, I probably have. I feel lousy. My motivation for many things is all but gone, I treat myself and others as if they do not matter - as if they are an afterthought, my diet is shit, I am unfit, I look like death, I feel even worse...I could go on forever but I won't. It's almost like I don't want to get out of this mess though. I don't seem to be doing anything about it, at least. It's a feeling I know all too well - I can't tell whether I feel nothing at all, or if just seems this way because my emotions are so intense that they overwhelm me. As corny as it may be to quote Cobain, "I miss the comfort in being sad".

I am grateful for the things that keep me going. Without the relationships in my life and music, I don't know how I would continue.

It's a familiar feeling - the long summer break is almost here, and I don't feel like I have earned one iota of a rest.

I miss my cat. Coco, I hope you're basking in the sun somewhere warm in feline heaven.

In less gloomy, and band-related shit, things are going pretty well. EHRL's debut album 'The Good Fight For Harmony' is complete (finally!), and will go to press as soon as the artwork is completed. 'Taste Of Chaos' was crazy. I can't think of another word for it. That crowd was fucking huge, and I loved every minute of it. Playing that show seems to have done very good things for us fan-wise. FTW have almost completed recording 4 songs for the forthcoming follow-up to 'Avarice'. It sounds heavier than I could have imagined, and the new material we are readying for the studio is crushing. We are playing with Nile soon. Holy shit. I still can't get over it.

What oh what oh what am I going to do...? Both options at the moment are fucked. How I will break this news I do not know. I disappoint, oh how I disappoint.

I think I might go for a punishing run this evening. Might lift my spirits a little.

A taste from our forthcoming album....

Sun, 16 Oct 2005 05:01:58 GMT

Head on over to www.myspace.com/eleventhhereacheslondon, where you can hear the track 'Say You See Why So' from the soon to be released Eleventh He Reaches London album, 'The Good Fight For Harmony'. The song will be released as a single this coming Saturday, 22 October, at 'Taste Of Chaos'.

That URL again, I hear you ask?

www.myspace.com/eleventhhereacheslondon

Checkit.

ears ringing, ghost skin, bloodshot eyes

Sun, 09 Oct 2005 12:08:22 GMT

This pretty much sums things up at the moment...

The Mark Of Cain - 'You Let Me Down'
You let me down
You let me down and you don't know how

No regrets?
I don't think so

Cos you let me down
You let me down
You let me down
You let me down

No regrets?
No regrets?

You walk around
Like you've got sleep in your eyes
You don't see me at all
We're just the same as when we began

Somnambulistic you go walking around
You don't see me at all
We're just the same as when we began

You're just the same
You're just the same
Just the same, just the same
As the others
You're just the same

You're just the same
Just the same, just the same
As the others

You let me down!
No regrets?
You let me down
No regrets?

You walk around
Like you've got sleep in your eyes
You don't see me at all
We're just the same as when we began

Somnambulistic you go walking around
You don't see me at all
We're just the same as when we began

You let me down
You let me down
You let me down

You're just the same
Just the same, you're just the same
As the others

You're just the same
Just the same, you're just the same
As the others

That's why we've come to tell you
You took us for a ride, took us for the worst ride
Going home alone
All the times I think of you
One word

You let me down
You let me down...
__________________________________________________

How cliché of me. Got hugs...?

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:12:22 GMT

Tune in to RTRFM 92.1 (or stream live from www.rtrfm.com.au) tomorrow (Thursday 15th September) from 1pm to hear an interview with Ian and Mark from Eleventh He Reaches London, and hear a taste of our forthcoming debut album, coming soon. The track 'Say You See Why So' will be featured.

Catch EHRL playing 'Burn The Airwaves', an RTRFM fundraiser, this Saturday at the Hyde Park Hotel. We are on first (we have muchos partying to do), so get down early. Also, we have a few of our 3 new badge designs remaining. Buy them. Go on.

www.myspace.com/eleventhhereacheslondon

Wed, 07 Sep 2005 17:39:37 GMT

Come down to Amplifier on Friday night for 'Love Like Violence 3'. Should be grand. EHRL will probably have some new pins for sale. Give us your money, we need it.

I think I just wet myself laughing at this...

Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:31:02 GMT

Suburbs invaded by feral boars
From: The Sunday Mail (Qld) By Danielle Jesser and Damien Stannard
August 28, 2005

A GIANT feral boar, weighed in at 270 kg and was one of the largest caught in Queensland. This shows how big the State's feral pig problem has become.

Hunters say the beasts are growing to monstrous size as farmers fight a losing battle against the pests. The pigs are becoming more brazen as they take to the suburbs of north Queensland in search of food, destroying gardens and lawns in Cairns and Airlie Beach.

Hunter Wayne Haldane has caught what is thought to be one of the biggest ferals in Queensland near his home in Kennedy, north of Cardwell.

The boar weighed 270kg and the only scales that could hold it were electronic ones used to weigh cattle.

Most feral pigs, which hide in sugar cane, weigh 60kg-150kg.

"I've caught plenty of pigs but never anything the size of this one," Mr Haldane said. "He must have been on good tucker."

While no official records of pig weights are kept, State Department of Natural Resources spokesman Steve Matheson said it was the biggest pig the department had heard about.

Mr Matheson said the pig would have been living on bananas rather than just sugar cane.

Mr Haldane said he thought feral pig numbers were rising, especially in areas that bordered national parks.

"Pigs are more cunning than most people think. These big old boars don't get that big by being stupid."

Mr Haldane and friends Jamie Bush and Jason Carter tracked the pig for more than three hours. They took three dogs and covered about 4km.

"They do a ridiculous amount of damage to the sugar cane and bananas. Any dead pig is a good pig."

Researchers hope a vegetable sausage that smells like fish might help deliver poison baits to the estimated 23 million feral pigs nationally.

This month, Cairns man Rod McKechnie had to defend himself with a shovel when a 60kg feral pig charged him in suburban Redlynch when he tried to shoo it from a playground.

A 40kg feral pig that moved into the Townsville suburb of Annandale in June has gone to ground.

The reclusive beast, known as Stinky to residents, has eluded all Townsville City Council's attempts to trap it.

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I want to meet Mr Haldane. And I want him to have a sparring match with Stinky, after Stinky has demolished a large plate of bananas and fish-scented vegetable sausages. Then we'll see who is stupid.

For other amusing animal-related shenanigans, see the following:

'Dog Taught To Kick-Box' and 'Depressed Chimp Lights Up'.

Also, Fool The World got the Nile support. Holy shit. Seriously. Fuck. Besides that, life is fucking shit at the moment, all self-induced of course.

tomorrow night!

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:21:46 GMT

Come tomorrow night. It will be amazing. Great local bands, although I'm probably slightly biased. Shai Hulud will be as evocative as they've ever been, and I will sift through memories of when I was a sad, bitter, 15 year old.

got toothpicks...?

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 07:17:35 GMT

I need some to keep my eyes from closing. Tonight will be the first night I have spent at home in about 10 days or so. I'm absolutely exhausted, and I don't think I can keep this up. I'm run down, feeling flat, and I'm getting sick again. Something is going to have to give.

Between full-time university, working two days a week, playing in two bands, trying to maintain healthy relationships with my family, girlfriend and friends, I have no time left for myself. I really enjoy my time alone. At the moment, though, that scarce time is more of a luxury that it should be.

I shall enjoy myself, alone, tonight.

Also...

a) paranoid
b) self-absorbed

Choose one.

Run dem, run dem....big tings gwarn get fix'd.

Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:52:38 GMT

Last night...simply awful. I have not felt that atrocious in a very long time. I couldn't sleep, and all evening I felt like I was going to fall apart, or spontaneously combust, or something. I thought I'd forgotten what it was like to feel that depressed, that hopeless. Thanks for reminding me, Mr. Mood.

Interpol was just as I expected. Good, not great, not bad, but good. I didn't expect them to be kings of wild stage presence and crowd interaction, but I also don't like spending that sort of money to watch a band on stage and listen to a perfect reconstruction of the CD. Hence the second half of their set was better (bum notes, seriously noticeable fuckups, a little more improv). Note to Mr. Sound Engineer - less kick drum pleasesir, the right side of my head still fucking hurts.

FTW are playing at the Lookout tonight. It's Tasso's birthday - you should come down and buy him many drinks so he can abuse you, call you 'cunt' and 'useless' and 'fucken' and such.

Tonight should be good - Major Break. I'm looking forward to seeing JDS...Krafty Kuts would be good as always but I'd be seeing him for the umpteenth time. A novelty-sized trumpetesque scoobtron has been rolled in honour of Nick's 22nd birthday. It shall take long moments to smoke, perfect for standing, busted, on Murray Street at 5am tomorrow morning.

Cheers, muchly, to catching up with friends, consolidating relationships with friends old and new, and friends generally.

Life, oh life, oh life.

daaaaammmmmmnnnn!

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:53:38 GMT

For some reason of which I am unaware, I am feeling incredibly happy. Giddily so. Almost scarily so. But I shant complain.

Back to uni....fantastic! ('what?!?' I hear you ask...it's true!)
Interpol....tonight.
Celebrating friends' birthdays....constantly.
Caribou....was funtastic.
FTW @ Lookout Saturday....come!
JDS/Krafty Kuts Saturday....dancemeister.
Juicy sweet oranges....stickytasty.
EHRL recording....woohaa!
EHRL playing live again, finally....yes.
Funghi....fun-she.
Friends.

Life is currently 'tha biznizz'. Lessnau, more later.

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:23:46 GMT

It's my birthday.

You should come.

Tacos?

Wed, 22 Jun 2005 08:20:30 GMT

Things are ok. Things are very up-and-down-and-round-and-round, and all over the place...but things are ok.

yell!
- porridge with a sliced banana and honey (a-little-dab-'ll-do-ya)
- strong coffee and associated caffeine buzz
- last week's delightful weather
- walking through the city in the 'cold' on the way to work, rugged up, music in ears and coffee in hand
- my brother and his wife visiting from Sydney
- reading
- Manute Bol-sized cheese and salad sandwiches on sunflower rye (Manute Bol! Can you block the ball?!? Manute Bol!)
- pseudo-intellectual babble, in my head
- university...what units do I choose?
- my birthday next Monday
- birthday party this Friday! (come!)
- parents returning from overseas
- haircut
- cooking
- cartoons
- nostalgia (but please don't throw me down the well again)
- Burn For Me benefit show @ Lookout this Saturday
- also this Saturday: Calyx, Ali B and Dexter (choices choices choices)
- proceeds of download addiction
- Revelation film festival starting soon

hell!
- familial distance, growing up, moving on
- loss
- self-destructive behaviour
- writer's block
- worry warts (of mind, not epidermis)
- download addiction

I got some 'madfreshdope' new 'kicks'. Thankyou Tina. Vesko, you may appreciate these.

Exhibits (a) and (b):

YMC = You, Me, Carpark! ... Youth Mosh Crew ... You Miserable Cunt ... Yuck! Mouldy Cooch! ... You Must Create

Word.

goodie goodie yum yum

Wed, 08 Jun 2005 17:27:54 GMT

So...

FTW playing with Bleeding Through last night was good.
The Breakfastaz were good (I danced my fucking tits off...it was better than good).
Hate Eternal were amazingly good.
Drinks for Jen's birthday were good.
Bar Open's 1st birthday (1/2 price drinks!) was good.
Parents being away is good.
Shopping is good (bargains and not-so-bargains).
Saving money is good.
Spending said saved money is better.
Writing new music is good.
Writing more new music tomorrow night is better.
Recording (again...!) this weekend will be good.
Catching up with friends is always good.
Missing friends is never good.
Kyoto Jazz Massive on Friday will be good.
Tina's birthday today was good.
Reading is good.
This weather is good.
Being able to rug up is good.
Chocolate cake is sometimes good.
Cheesecake is always better.

New music is always, always, always good.

I love the sound of rain on my roof. Goodnight.