The Birth Of Cool

Well not really. This is a little update to the now-defunct Bill Cooney blog.

I'm moving to Japan in August to start a new adventure. Go check it out here. Also, a stuff up with webhosts and such has meant that I have lost my images from my custom blogger template. Enjoy the refreshed layout here, courtesy of Blogger's standard templates.

Cheerio.

Thanks For Stopping By

This blog means a lot to me. Chronicled within its archives are the first girl I ever cared seriously about, my first job, my first film's premiere, my uni graduation and a whole lotta other stuff. Alas the time has come to close this chapter in my history.

This is not entirely voluntary. Certain people have stumbled upon this blog whom I would rather hadn't, which is probably my fault for having it in my signature on the BAS forums. Nevertheless, action has been taken in the form of the ending of this record of the the past 2 and a bit years of my life.

I never was any good at a paper journal, but there was something about the ease of updating crap from place to place via the internet. I'm gonna arrange to print this out in the next few weeks so I can bind it and have a record of it for my own personal history.

Thanks guys. It was fun while it lasted. Thanks to Shawni for the great blog layout I've stuck with for all these years, even though you offered to redo it again and again. Thanks to my friends for visiting and commenting. Nice to know that someone was out there.

Not good fun

I'm kind of spooked and stressed and freaked out.

I have had two traffic incidents in the past 24 hours.

The first one involved a work van's brakes failing severely and slamming me into the guard rail on the south east freeway then skidding across three lanes of traffic and running 50m along the embankment with the engine jammed on until i could shut it off.

Which leaves my job in jeopardy even though I've been complaining about the poor response of the brakes and such for about 7 months and other people have been complaining after driving that van too. It does leave my lower back severely jarred though and makes sleep, sitting and walking painful.

The second one happened earlier today while I was driving into the city with Dan, Michael and Brad for GENTS camp stuff and involved a collision with a motor cyclist which (thank god) resulted in no injuries but did result in hefty insurance monies to be paid.

I feel really tapped and stressed and freaking and I'm very not well now both physically and emotionally.

The Hair!!!

So I now have labeled all the strawberry*drop DVD/CD sets for supanova, as well as dyeing my hair orange...

I bleached for about 10 minutes then coloured... I conditioned 5 times during the process though, so my poor fine hair didn't dissolve from the chemicals. Have also stenciled my shirts. I bought pants for one cosplay, but couldn't find the top for the other...

Like, no jackets in spring? What is this? Queensland??!??!?!

Well Now...

updated
Okay. Because I am too tired to fix it, I will just link later tonight after I update thedrop (the official website).

Also, I love cake. Seriously. No. Not that seriously.

The DVD will be $14 and you can buy genuine Strawberry*Drops for $1.20 a bag too!!!

Permission To Land!!!

Finished the final edits on Strawberry*Drop's DVD.... Now am duplicating like, 30 of them. I was only going to do 25, but I want to give some to certain people as freebies. Also have been finishing the cover which I will post later tonight...

Very tired, but am working tomorrow and will have to finish stuff and get it printed as well...

Now I know how Patrick felt last year!!!

What A Weekend

Well, I went to Ray's on Friday night. We ate Red Rooster, drank alcohol, I made brilliant Martinis again.

We ran out of vodka and there was a mercy dash made to the Colmslie for more. The triumphant return of the brave souls with Absolut vodka made a big difference. They didn't taste like they were made with AvGas anymore.

Anyways, watched all of season three of Black Books which was fun. Then I crashed at Ray's on the floor.

Work on Saturday morning installing plasma screens at the Family night club. Was in the city eating noodles with BAS ppls in the afternoon, looking out the window watching a Korean film being shot (guy drives his car on two wheels all the way down Mary street from George to Albert) when I got a phone call to go sort out some woman's slide projector in Chapel Hill. I mean, bugger! I had to drive against Suncorp Traffic (Broncos were playing) all the way. Then it turns out the projector remote wasn't plugged in properly. Grrr.

Went to BAS, where Krazy tried to kill himself but failed. The ambos came anyway so now all we need is a BAS member to be taken away by the fireys and that's all the emergency services bar the SES, which isn't a real emergency service anyway.

Went to Steiny's and looked at the DVD. All good. Gotta make some changes and do some menu fixes, but apart from that all gooooo!!!

Just need to organise my crap for Supanova this week.

Baby We Were Born to Run!!!!

Or so says The Boss (Springsteen) as he blares from my stereo whilst I gaze at the sun-dappled wallscrolls. Many of which are duplicated on the desktop of MY NEW PHONE!!!

I gots me a new phone (Motorola v600). Does mp3s for ringtones, etc, so I have Chiyo-chan's cooking song for a ringtone and Kero saying "Konninachiwa!!!" for an SMS alert. As well as the afore mentioned desktops. I resized a bunch of my computer desktops so it's all nice and pretty now.

Also bought Springsteen's greates hits for $10 the other night. Rocking, huh? I'm loving it. Also am loving Awful Truth series 1 and 2 so I'm filled with lefty pride. Or something.

Hmmm... Supanova drawing near... I must finish the cover art for the Strawberry*Drop DVD/CD, do the insert booklet, bag up the Strawberry*Drops, burn copies, print the labels, covers and inserts, package them all. And I've also gotta buy some stuff for cosplay...

DaaDeeDeeDaaDeeDeeDaaDeeDeeDaaDeeDaa... MUTHAFUCKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^_^

Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga!!!

Awwk!! It's true. At least it is the title (anglicised) of a great little tankubon I picked up yesterday. Really top notch stuff. Also, I have finished the menus and such for the Strawberry*Drop DVD. Will now proceed to do totally unreal more hidden things to it to make it Action Filled and Jam Packed.

Also saw The Village today. Figured out "The Twist" about 15 minutes into it, however wasn't sure whether that was the twist until more things happened. Then I knew for sure. Unlike the tards behind me who were all like, "What? I don't get it."

I laugh at you, foolish pop-puppets.

15 days till Supanova!!!

Finished That One!!!

The DaaDeeDeeDaa video clip featuring Doom Spiral is done. You shall be able to purchase it at Supanova on "A Very Pink DVD". Oh yes.

Also, my brain is creamy and filled with goodness.

Boingggg!!!

Sore

Massive migraines. Gonna go home early and sleep. I was supposed to stay here at uni till 10 but screw that. I want to die.

OMFG!!

So I didn't get the job at MusicLab. But. I did get my tax return, so here comes ProTools babay!!!!

But.

I went to QCA to check out some films the music for doing for. And. The producer's friend was there. And. She was cute. Like, OMFG cute. I'm such a loser though. I can't even remember her name. I'm sure we will meet again. And then I will ask her out. Then she will tell me she has a boyfriend and I'll feel like a tool. Poop.

ZOMBIES!!!

Seriously, I'm so brain fucked. I had a dream last night where I was getting chased by zombies. I ended up getting caught in a very tight place by one and I had to gash its head off with a broken bottle. I think the fact that I had read the Zombie Survival Guide helped me in my dream, and also the fact that I knew it was a dream. I totally kicked arse. Then I woke up and had to go to uni.

All day video editing today.

All day, and then when I had my DVD rendering away, some little shits unplugged my hard drive by mistake. Because you know, a translucent IceCube drive looks like a big grey fucking MantaRay drive huh.

Bastards. So now I have left my drives overnight at uni to render, and will be doing the same thing tomorrow night so I have have these things done by Monday for the client.

Arse.

Bum.

Chiyo-chan's Cooking Song

tsukurimashou.. tsukurimashou.. sate sate nani ga dekiru ka na

God I love Azumanga Daioh. No. Really. Went out to do some recon for Supanova today. Surprises in the room. New layouts, new venues. Slight revisal of previous figures with some additions. But I think it's relatively locked in. Now to uni tomorrow for more video editing for RACQ. It's 97GB of data I don't need clogging up my drives, okay?

Get that shit off the damn drive and move on to my next two/three projects - City, a play I'm scoring/sound designing, 1,2,3,4, a doco about Patrick and his comic ness & Untitled - nice jazz-breaks type of CD with good vocalist.

tsukurimashou.. tsukurimashou.. sate sate nani ga dekiru ka na

Also, I have ingested no caffiene since Sunday. The headaches have stopped and I feel great. More energy throughout the day, sleeping betterer too.

tsukurimashou.. tsukurimashou.. sate sate nani ga dekiru ka na

Big Updata

Hoookay.

Well, last week I had a job trial. For a kick arse job. Truly cool and great and I would soo love it. Yes it's retail. and yes it's support (two of those things which suck, I know). But! It's a place I go to anyways, and I can do the work, and I liked it. It was cool.

But this week another guy is having a trial for it. We're both doing Honours at the Con, which is why we were offered. However. This guy is cool and he could also be doing the job too. And be good at it, so our trials were really, "Does this person fit in or piss people off or do things that could preclude him from being good at that job in terms of him fitting in to the workplace, allrighty y'all?".

I hope I get it. I would be sooooo good. And not poor. And also being able to claim trips to US and Japan off tax as well as computers and recording gear.

Alas, but.

Also, went and saw TISM with Tigris, Panic and Rhys. We ate Japanese food at "O-Yama" in the valley, I introduced Patrick to Asahi beer and it was all good. The opening act was good. They are Monster Zoku Onsomb. The second act sucked arsehole. TISM were, as per usual, top notch, even laying out the elusive country version of "Defecate On My Face". Rhys made off with a small 2" square of Humphrey Flaubert's costume. I made off with a copy of "The White Albun".

I also have lately picked up TRON. It was cool. Patrick and I are scheming for the finishing of the Strawberry*Drop DVD and it will be available at Supanova.

Additional : ADDED 1945 16/08/04
I have been instructed to hold off the ingesting of caffiene this week in an effort to see if it reduces the severity and occurence of severe headaches I experience, which are possibly blood pressure related. Fuck. I have to finish video and website design this week.

Bleargh.

Teh Drinks0r

I had a drinking weekend. That's my description. And. Here follows details.

Went and D&D at Paul's on Saturday. Spent the morning building new characters. Then had lunch. While buying lunch, I bought mead. Now there is only about a third of the bottle left. Then proceeded to watch Futurama and drink Sake. Got up on Sunday and worked in the morning. Then went to BAS. After BAS went to buy stuff for Rachel's birthday. Then went to the pub with Silverfox and Suntzu. A jug of Bundy & Coke later, I stagger to the bus stop with Nezumi Neko. Catch the bus to Stones Corner. Arrive at Coffee club for Rachel's birthday thingy. Drink Corona. Get a lift home with Owen and Gaye.

Sleep.

Uni today and also interview. I have a work trial and, if all goes well (PRAY OR DO WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS YOU DO!!!!), I shall have a job. A good one that will basically make my existence a tax dodge.

Oh please God let me impress them and get the job!!!

The Funny-ness!

So my iBook was logged on to IRC. Then I turned my iMac on. It also logged on, but was assigned the variant of my login, due to the fact that the iBook was logged on. Then I had some fun. Here it is.

--> shoujo_ (shoujo@vw3915.optusnet.com.au) has joined #bas
--- ChanOP gives channel operator status to shoujo_
(shoujo_> what the f***?
(shoujo> huh?
(shoujo> who are you, c***rag?
(shoujo_> me?
(shoujo_> Who the f*** are you? using my f***ing NICK!!!!
(shoujo_> and how the f*** did you get ops?
(shoujo> me?
(shoujo> I AM T#H F***IONG OP!!!!
(shoujo_> OH YEAH?
(shoujo> YEAH
(shoujo> !!!!
* shoujo_ powers-up...
* shoujo takes position...
(shoujo_> KAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!
(shoujo_> MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
(shoujo_> HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!
(shoujo_> MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(shoujo> You are evil
(shoujo> and must therefore be punished...
* shoujo begins to twirl against a pulsing pink and blue background to the disco beat
(shoujo_> HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* tsume kicks shoujo while dancing
--> Kanchi (kanchi@vw23679.iprimus.net.au) has joined #bas
* shoujo_ blasts a wall of engergy against shoujo
(Kyo_Clan_Clan> hmm
(shoujo> ai to seigi no seera-fuku bishoujo-senshi sailor shoujo ga tsuki ni kawatte oshioki yo
(shoujo_> huh???!??!
(shoujo> I dodge your pathetic blast of shounen energy
(shoujo> SUUPA MAGIC PANTY FLASH REVOLUTION!!!!
(Mangaguru|busy> this is just weird..
* shoujo flashes his panties at shoujo_
(shoujo_> arrghhh!!!!!!
(shoujo> take my vanquishing, evil shadow shoujo_
(shoujo_> arrgh!!!!!
(shoujo_> Nonn!!1 Noonn!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(-- shoujo has kicked shoujo_ from #bas (And don't come back!!!)
--> subshade (boobies@vw-2447.ihug.com.au) has joined #bas
(AntiAngstManga> boobies
--> Zudal (AieAH@vw28767.comindico.com.au) has joined #bas
(subshade> :o
--> TuxedoShoujo (shoujo@vw3915.optusnet.com.au) has joined #bas
--- ChanOP gives channel operator status to TuxedoShoujo
(AntiAngstManga> er.. I mean Aloha subshade
(AntiAngstManga> Aloha zudal
(TuxedoShoujo> Ahhh...
--- beardedgeek is now known as chiyo_chan
(subshade> Manga'ies. XD
(Zudal> aloha Manga
(TuxedoShoujo> I was tooo late to help you defeat him
(AntiAngstManga> and aloha to .....tuxedo shoujo?
(shoujo> Never mind...
(AntiAngstManga> so you had enough of that game?
(TuxedoShoujo> But I shall flap my cape, pose on the profile then throw down a rose and play my flamenco guitar!!!
(shoujo> okay. whatever.
* TuxedoShoujo flaps cape, poses on the profile then throws down a rose and plays his flamenco guitar
(TuxedoShoujo> and now I must be off... Off to sell naked pictures of you and the other sailor scouts on the internet
(shoujo> Wha?
(-- TuxedoShoujo has quit (Exit: Ohhh the panties!!! THE PANTIES!!!! PANTSU GA DAISUKINE!!!)
(shoujo> okay
(shoujo> better
(shoujo> ^_^

Capture This, Biznatch!!!

Just ordered my TISM ticket for next Friday! Woo!! Also, I am filled with ncie teas. Finally went to the T Shop at Soutbank today. Got some Warm Chai blend, Festivi T and also Japanese Cherry Blossom Green Tea blend. Also saw Stepford Wives today too. Nice.

Ummm. What else? Am feversishly doing video capture for video editing I have to do...

Need sleep, but need to do this job too...

Stupid living and stuff.

WASSSABBI!!!!

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I Need Death. Really.

Okay, so on Friday I worked from 0800 to 1830. On Saturday I worked from 0730 to 1930. With a crippling flu. On Sunday I worked from 0645 till 1300 then took pills and passed out. Today I worked from 0600 till 2015. Tomorrow I work from 0730 to around 2000. I still have the flu. And am sore.

Seriously, it's unhealthy and if I bothered to check the award I'd probably be able to sue or something, but it's the last week before uni goes back and I need t3h cash. I also need to not be stoned on 2000mg of paracetamorel but it's the only thing that helps. My body hurts all over, my hands are cut and mangled and I feel nauseous all the time.

I have severly elevated cholesterol and high blood pressure. I may also be insulin resistant which is not only hereditary (half my extended family have it) but also the preliminary stages of diabetes. Oh and I'm also about 40kgs overweight. I have stated that I am now on the weight losing thing. What was awaiting me for lunch yesterday, before I passed out in bed from the flu? Vegetarian lasagne and fucking CHIPS! Chips = carbohydrate = sugar which I DON'T FUCKING NEED!!!! Thanks mum. Well the lasagne was made with reduced fat cheese, so I ate it (was filled with spinach and carrot anyways). Left the chips. What was awaiting me for dinner? SAUSAGE *FUCKING* PIE!!!! (Sausages sliced and layered with sliced tomatoe and tinned spaghetti layered with mashed potato on top, baked in the oven). The fucking FATTIEST kind of FUCKING MEAT available, let alone the fucking POTATOES on the top!!!!! Oh and the spaghetti which is fucking carbs again. I found some salad in the fridge and pointedly ate that commenting on the unhealthiness of the fucking pie.

Guess what was awaiting me for dinner tonight after I arrive home after a 14 hour day? FUCKING SAUSAGE FUCKING PIE!!!!! I had vegetable soup with the veggies off the sausage pie plate chopped up and chucked in for extra food.

What the fuck is wrong with my family? My mum fucking harps on at me about my weight and then when I decide to do something about it she gives me fucking lasagne and fucking chips, then a fucking fat filled starch topped shit pile. So much for support. I weighed 135kg at the doctor last Wednesday when she weighed me. Let's see how much I can lose before the end of the year...

Without my mother's fucked up cooking. I mean, seriously!

Doco Production Progress Report

It is now 1.21 AM and I have just spent the last 14 hours logging, capturing and verifying the footage that we shot for the documentary. Oh the pain. I have arse cramp, back cramp, neck cramp and computer cramp. I went through a pack and a half of CinnaBurst while doing this too. I've been capturing all the footage in at half resolution so that I can save some hard disk space. Once the final cut is complete, I'll only need to recapture the footage that was utlised. Also I've pretty much decided to use After Effects for the chroma keying. It just looks better. But I'll wait and see. Now for sleep.

The Things What I Been Doing

The morning after my sister's 21st on Friday night, I went back to the venue and packed up the lighting and sound and took it back to work. Went into the city after that and bought some manga and Volcano High and eXistenZ on DVD. Also found Cinnamon Gum! Woo!!! Finally!! Went home spent time with family.

Sunday was similar, cept I saw Spiderman 2 in the morning then went to church in the evening. Spiderman 2 should be called "Kirsten Dunst : Also, Spiderman as well." Not that I have a problem with that. Went to church and stuff. Had major bitch to Mel about the parentals and life in general. She suggested the possibility that I just haven't met the right girl yet. I hate it when people make sense.

Today I went into uni to start :

The Documentary Progress Report

Woo. I transferred all the material from large DVCam tapes into miniDV tapes so that I can borrow a camcorder from Andrew to start the edit tomorrow. Expecting a lot of work...

Awwww...

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Ewww!!!!

So family (extended and the regular kind) are currently here. I have just seen photos of my second cousin's Cesearan labour.

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!

Also...

UUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

And I have fixed up the bad bit of HTML coding that cause visitors to the webcam to visit the klokband.com WWP service. What the hell is wrong with me? My coding r0x0rs. Why am I like this today? I put it down to the damn dream. Been feeling weird all day.

GRRRRRRRR!

Day of Stuff!!!

Okay, so I spent the day backing stuff up and getting it off my firewire drives in preparation for the editing of Patrick's doco thingy. I been burning anime all day and have also managed to get internet sharing across to the iMac, which is now hosting shoujocam(tm) which y'all can check out by clicking on the button to the right, the little thumbnail of the current shot.

Also got my hairs cut. Makes me look a little trendier and such as well. Very schmick. Very bored today though. Had a great dream last night involving That Girl. You know the one that I've mention previously that I don't know who she is. I think it may be my brain giving itself what it wants - a fantasy of being with The One. Fucking brain. It gets what it wants but do I? No way.

Oh yeah. GO THE BLUES!!!! Nobody can complain about last night. 'Cept for Queensland. But I mean, the Blues looked like a football team. The Maroons looked more like the schoolboys in the Masters vs Sacrificial Lambs match from Monty Python's Meaning of Life. The NSW players were like, tanks. Men of Rugby. The QLD players looked like those that aspire, but were born to circus workers of diminuitive size. Who smoked.

30 White Soldiers on a Red Hill...

RE: The Title of the post - Read the Hobbit. Particularly inside the Misty Mountains.

Because Shawn asked (and because it may aid in the chick-pulling abilities of this blog), my teeth are fine. I had a cut and polish, which made me never want to eat again. Nice freshly polished teeth. Mmm. Also I have no holes or anything, but they took new x-rays (because the last ones I had done before my wisdom teeth came out in 2000). I love how I get a lead apron over my privates and the dentist goes behind a 2 foot blast wall. I feel so fertile now.

I got my uni results for my last two assessments today. Beagle Bones soundtrack got 82%, which is a distinction and the last Research Methods assignment got 75% which is the fourth highest mark in the class!!! I think it may make a distinction for that subject, but I'm not sure.

Gee I'm happy.

Goodness

Andrew and I filmed Patrick on Friday for the doco I'm doing on him, then I dropped Patrick home. I had been home myself for about an hour when BOOM I kinda keeled over.

Thanks for the flu, sis.

Went to bed hella early and took pills. Woke up and when Andrew arrived we drove over to Patrick's to pick him up for World Free Comic Book Day so he could sign stuff at Ace Comics and we could film him doing it. Hung around while Patrick defaced a copy of The Wraith at the behest of Paul from Ace. I dropped him home and got home myself. Got online and well, well, well... BAS LAN at Rad's place. Headed on over and got stuffs.

Battle Royale II sucks. Like, really badly. Elephant is very good. Will be inflicting it on everybody. Now I found out I have to go to Beaudesert tomorrow for work. Fun, huh. Oh well. Least I shall be paid this week.

Now must prepare for the dentist tonight.

Sermon On The Mount Moscone Center West

Well... another Apple WWDC Keynote by Steve (Jobs). I tried to get there this year but apparently my kung-fu wasn't that good. No stream this year either though, so I had to wait until the various rumour sites and Appl had updated to find out. Nice stuff in Tiger, the next incarnation of MacOS X. New displays that match the G5's smooth look.

30 INCH LCD DISPLAY

OH MY GOD!!!! Of course, Apple being Apple they posted the following on their page:

But even more than saving you money, when you choose items that consume less electricity, it means that power plants don’t need to consume as much fossil fuels and thus emit fewer greenhouse gases. What’s more, building an LCD display uses less materials than building a CRT, which leaves more raw materials for your grandchild’s computer. And since they don’t need huge boxes, flat panels also reduce the cost of packaging and shipping. All of this helps to reduce dependence on oil.

Yep. Because the reason we all covet a 30" LCD is because they're environmentally friendly. Sure we do....

You Stole My Boyfriend!!! *BANG BANG*

"RUN!"
-#15 Nanahara Shuya


Which Battle Royale Character are You?
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Okay, so I have the Battle Royale Special Edition DVD and was hunting around for the book, but translated into English. Amazon.com has it, but I found the first 10 chapters translated here to let me see if it's really worth it. I plan to read them this afternoon while I babysit another slide projector for a client.

Postulate Upon This Theoretical Hypothesis If You Will...

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Damn they cool!!! I been listening like, all day and stuff...

Low bandwidth too. Go to http://www.mystery-otr.com.

Current Song : Misc J-Pop from Anime OSTs

Listening while I procrastinate before getting back to an assignment...

This is funny as is this.

Not Really An Update

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Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

Peter da Silva

So on Friday we went and saw the new Harry Potter film. Damn Alfonso Cuaron can produce a vision. The movie tone fit the tone of the book sooooo well, Thewliss was the Lupin and Michael Gambon, well if he had played Dumbledore from the beginning, people would have been more accepting of his interpretation. He plays DD much more like the books portray him then the slightly wizend old wizard Richard Harris did. Not knocking ol' Macarthur Park though.

We also went out and had dinner at Toscani's and after a little bit of bill difficulty (they put a bunch of stuff on our bill we didn't have!!) it was nice. I also handed in 30-something pages of Beagle Bones write up and am now working on my RMP assignment for Friday.

Additionally I have now finished Maburaho and am 3 episodes into Stellvia of the Universe.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown in "Peanuts"


I got the second and third Lord Of The Rings OSTs on Sunday before BAS. $15 each. Bargain. These are currently being ripped to the iBook for bulk LOTR musical phuns.

This of course followed by the BAS craptacular. The AV system in the Kindler Theatre broke down and we got shunted back to the old haunt in S Block. I much preferred S Block because you couldn't hang around out the front, back in the day. Unfortunately, most people who started doing that in the foyer of the Kindler Theatre just plonked themselves down on the floor outside the room.

Noisy bastards. I have grabbed all of Maburaho and Stellvia though. I'm such a slut for cute character designs.

Kill me now. Also, I think that once again I have been defeated by the single date barrier. It appears that once again I shall add to the large roster of Bill's Female Friends. Adding to the self dumping thingy, I like the general connotations of the "I'm sure you'll find a girl one day" thing when it comes from other girls. Because of the implied, "But you're just not good enough/too ugly/not ugly enough/too fat/too skinny/too big (thanks Zadie for adding that one to the melting pot of possible rejection reasons/abusive enough for me."

Ooh... New Harry Potter movie comes out on Thursday!!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!

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2 Days After The Day After Tomorrow. Which Was Two Days Ago.

Found this review. I like it.

The Round Up

So we went and saw "Day After Tomorrow" with the expectation of poorness. We were not disappointed. "Titanic" on land or "Independence Day" with the weather - that's a choice I leave up to you.

The "We" I'm referring to their was another First Date(tm) brought to you by Bill's foolish hope. It went well enough. We saw a movie, went up to Mt Cootha for coffee afterwards, I dropped her home. Now we shall see what hath been wrought...

I just feel so abnormally normal about the whole thing. It was nice, I think we both had a nice time, but it'll depend on her whether we go out again. When the trailers came on she did mention that SpiderMan 2 looked like a good movie to see. Subtle hint for Second Date(r)(tm)? In an ideal world with relational physics dictated by "10 Things I Hate About You", Harry-Ginny fanfiction and those movies where the guys friends are totally looking out for him when it comes to the ladies it would be.

In this hollow, ash-filled existence of hate, loneliness and despair it most likely means that SpiderMan 2 looked like a good movie to see.

Recorded strings today for "Beagle Bones". Now to spend all of tomorrow editing them to sound slick. So much post production. Next time I'm just gonna kill Salman Rushdie, collect the US$333 000 that student group from Tehran University is offering for his head and hire the London Symphony Orchestra.

Nice

I had a nice weekend. My folks and my sister went up for her engagement party in Rockhampton (her fiancé is from there) and I did assignments and watched movies, then had BAS last night. After that Kinoko, Tigris and Panic came back here and we watched DVDs and talked crap till the early hours.

That was nice.

I'm interested in someone at the moment. She's very sweet, pretty, funny, we have stuff in common and we're going out on Friday night. I'm just kind of hoping that it goes well and she wants to do it again. According to a faithful trusted party, she thinks I'm quite depressed/ing. Well if she's been reading my blog I could understand that. But it's not really the case.

Apparently I come through as all depressed and morose through this thing. I'm not really like that at all. I just find it carthatic to vent in text, particularly where I know my friends can read it and either tell me to wake up to myself, or at least gain some insight into why I climbed the tower with the gun.

I was in the car with Simon tonight and we were having a little D&M as you do when driving along and I brought up the fact that this girl thinks I'm depressed/ing and how I thought that was a little misjudged. Simon said not so much depressed as bitter and cynical. I think bitterness is an unhealthy amount of cynicism but I also think that cynicism is healthy. At least to a point.

My problem seems to be that I barely balance the scales on healthy cynicism and frequently dip into the unhealthy part. I think it's a defense mechanism that runs something along the lines of "keep people away and they can't hurt you" but what happens when you do want to get close to someone? You let the cynicism down and once you get hurt the wall goes up again, but thicker and deeper.

I am making such an effort not to do that lately, but I don't know if it's having any positive effect or repercussions. I wish I could get an informed opinion from a third person observer or something. Maybe "emotional surveyors" are listed in the Yellow Pages...

Meme Again!!!

JUNE:
1. Thinks far with vision. I'll accept that.

2. Easily influenced by kindness. I'm a sucker for love

3. Polite and soft-spoken. EEEHHHHH. WRONG WRONG!!!

4. Having lots of ideas. True. Not all appropriate for a family audience, but true.

5. Sensitive. But nobody wants to stick around and find out how sensitive.

6. Active mind. See 1 and 4.

7. Hesitating, tends to delay. I could NOT be single. I just have standards.

8. Choosy and always wants the best. Standards, I tell you.

9. Temperamental. Shut up. Go away. Aww, I love you. YOU BUMHOLE!!!

10. Funny and humorous. Apparently.

11. Loves to joke. But am I Funny anf humorous...

12. Good debating skills. Are not. Are so. Are not. Are so. Are not TIMES INFINITY!!!

13. Talkative. See, how can I be number 3 and number 13?

14. Daydreamer. Would explain why I failed Chemistry in high school.

15. Friendly. Or lonely... like a poor abused puppy.

16. Knows how to make friends. Have big tits and put out lots. Well I got the first part right.

17. Abiding. Huh?

18, Able What? As opposed to disabled?

19. to show character. Oh. Right. Nope. Not able to show true character. Emotional issues. But I am trustworthy and loyal, if it means the other character.

20. Easily hurt. Probably due to my over-trusting nature of cute girls, who then turn out to be evil psychopaths who have just broken up with their boyfriends, failed to tell me about it and decide to rip out my heart in shit in the bleeding cavity.

21. Prone to getting colds. Thanks for the sinus condition Dad. No, really. I like having no sense of smell for a third of the year.

22. Loves to dress up. I love the nightlife, I love the boogie. And I own a number of suits and such.

23. Easily bored. Look at the kitty!!!

24. Fussy. I prefer the term "discriminating".
25. Seldom shows emotions. Except on my blog. How cathartic.

26. Takes time to recover when hurt. First time took 2 years. Last hurting occurred in December. I'm taking bets now via PayPal.

27. Brand conscious. I'm concious that "Microsoft" = "Shit".

28. Executive. Well my car is an Executive...

29. Stubborn. Not really

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Soreness

Well yesterday I conducted a makeshift orchestra for "Beagle Bones". My shoulder is hurting like buggery. I feel like I was playing tennis all afternoon. It sounds pretty damn good too.

Congratulations to Ray and Rachel. Apparently the rock is big. Well that's according to Kathryn who got it from Mel. I need to finish my Apple Design Awards project and then go check out whether my tax refund will be better spent at russianwomen.com or belarusebrides.net.

Not Asking Much...

Oh the painful pain.

So I'm trying to get musicians to play this film score of mine for Beagle Bones & The Temple of The Maya. It's a pain in the arse. I'm a student with no budget, but I'm surrounded by musicans at uni. I go to the fucking CONSERVATORIUM of Music for fuck's sake! But! Can I get any string players? No fucking way.

The problem is that this is for my project study this semester which is only %50 of my mark. And do you think I could get any string players to play? No!!!! Brass was up for it, percussion was up for it...

Next piece I write is gonna be for percussion. At least they give a fuck.

Apparently they all want to play solo. Well news for them. You play a pussy little violin that need to be surrounded by 10 others in order to be heard!!!!!

If anyone knows any string players that aren't too precious or busy (and I accept that some of them would prefer paid work over this, if it's available), please contact me!!!

Here are the details :

I need 10 violin players, 3 violists, 3 cellists, 2 double bassists for
a recording session this Sunday from 12 - 4 at the Queensland
Conservatorium (Southbank, opposite QPAC).

In return for their services, they'll get food, their name in the
credits, a copy of the finished film on DVD or VHS and the opportunity
to play in a professional recording setting.

The music is not overly difficult, although sight reading ability is
important. I'd say AMEB grade 4 to 6 level.

Please forward this on to any players you know.

Also, I apologise for the swearing. I'm very stressed and pissed at the moment. Not a good combination.

Snorrrrrreee....

Completely irrational depression clouds me at the moment. I got an assignment back. 81.5% which I think is a credit, although I may be wrong. Had a good weekend away with Arts Weekend. Played a good gig on Saturday night.

But still feel depressed. Trying on different feelings to see what clicks and may be a good reason for depression

Singleness with no prospects anywhere in sight : feeling of hopelessness no greater than usual.
Lack of regular employment and seriously minimal fundses : nup. Not them either.
Feelings of alienation and futility : maybe, but I haven't started listening to Radiohead yet, so it's not that either.

I don't know. Been having bizzarre dreams lately focused around the idea that if I could go back in time with what I know now about how people in general think and myself, perhaps I wouldn't be so fucked up. I would tell certain people to go jump, I'd pay attention to other people more and I wouldn't have said or done certain things that would give them incorrect perceptions of me.

I feel like I'm expected to be this person sometimes and I don't want to. Like I'm expected to be all responsible and mature and stuff and not stoop to adolescent antics. I never had adolescent antics. I had "Look at those retarded fools. Like I'd be caught dead doing that," which now appears as, "I wish I had {insert thing here} when I was younger. Then it would have been written of as retarded adolescent fooling."

Right at this moment I regret having had ignored all the girls at my school (even the nice, not slutty ones - all three of them) on the basis that high school relationships are a useless waste of time spent on study, and besides neither of you is mature to carry on a relationship anyway (no car, no money, etc).

I regret having written certain people off as colorless when they were perhaps the most principled and focused people there.

I regret not really experiencing my adolescence by closing my eyes and hoping it finished as soon as possible.

I'm pretty sure this makes me a complete weirdo, but I can't help but think if I had done things differently, would I not be so unable to do seemingly normal everyday functional things that 95% of the world seems to be able to do like gain employment, have a relationship, not have internal psyche core melt-downs every three working hours.

I mean, right now I question what value I bring to anything, anywhere being that it seems I don't mean much to anybody personally, nobody values my creative art (well at least not enough to pay me for it), nobody seems to value me personally enought to care about the cracks appearing.

I now realise why it's so hard for me to get up in the mornings : sleep offers a nice escapism from the reality that is, "Wake up. Now expend your emotional and physical energy, get reamed in return. Rinse and repeat ad nauseum."

The Big Gig

So I'm skiving off writing an assignment right now, and I've been not well this week, ridiculously tired...

Pretty shitty feeling, really.

Not much work so I've watched the rest of my X-Files DVDs. Nice.

Been working on a new track for KLOK as well as organising for Arts Weekend that is on this weekend. The others (Tigris, Panic, Katt) are down in Sydney at present for Supanova Sydney. KLOK is the resident band at Arts Weekend this year, so I am not going down. We get to make doof for adoring(?) fans though, so maybe it's okay.

Bleargh. I changed my dissertation topic to "Performance Practice in Contemporary Electronic Music : Engaging the Audience". There's just more literature on it than my old topic. Admittedly there's still bugger-all, but there's more bugger-all than "Music Technology and it's Effects on The Composition of Music for Picture". I just need to finish this thingy now and get it handed in before I have to go up Mt. Tamborine.

I realise that I have not been whinging about girls lately. I believe this is because while I still care, I'm currently kind of over the whole "oh woe is me thing." I discount certain potential females that I meet because I make an assessment on their maturity after meeting them a few times and I think that the fact that I make regular mention of "The cross I am forced to bear" leads to girls that I may consider or who may consider me to make the same judgement. At any rate I figure if I want to have some kind of healthy romantic relationship perhaps I should start making some effort to cultivate the image that I possess some relational health to begin with.

Or I could just walk around with $100 notes hanging out of my fly.

The Truth is Out There... A Little To The Left. Stop. Go Back. Near The Kettle.

So I have the first four seasons of The X-Files, thanks to JB HiFi and their nice cheap bin scab DVD sales.

I'm about two or three episodes into the third season. Fave episodes so far would have to be "Blood" - Hallucinogens in the populace and hidden electronic triggers.

KILL.
KILL 'EM.
KILL 'EM ALL.

Or something.

Anyways it's all good and I'll probably buy the other seasons too. I know people think it started to suck after season 3 or season 1 or whatever, but I like it and it was a series that started when I started high school and also co-incided with my first usage of the internet. I used to hang on alt.tv.x-files and I just remembered something and googled it. I present Agent Pat Gonzales Dossier on the X-Files and I remember trying to download this in its original incarnation (one massive html doc with GIF screen captures) and being defeated by Netscape v1.0 (pulsating blue 'N' flayva) when it couldn't fit the whole HTML file on one floppy. So it's one of those things I remember in a variety of circumstances. I remember watching X-Files in the Palmer Dormitory at school, I remember watching it at home on the holidays and the pain in the arse when the Anasazi end-of-season-two cliff hanger occurred. I remember lining up for ages to meet Gillian Anderson at Westfield in 1995. I remember reading some X-Files graphic novels somewhere once.

And these act as launching points for remembering other sequences of memories.

It sounds kind of sad, I guess. If you know, you're like, too cool to have been into the X-Files, but it's true.

Two Memes

From Barb's Blueprints (Barb being the author of extensive HP fanfiction novels).

Bold the movies you have seen and then add five more to the list at the end.
1. X-Men
2. The Craft
3. X2
4. Swimfan
5. Fellowship of the Ring
6. Finding Nemo
7. Peter Pan (Disney)
8. Home Alone
9. Aladdin
10. The Ring
11. 10 Things I Hate About You
12. Not Another Teen Movie
13. Spiceworld
14. 8 Mile
15. Bambi
16. Pirates of the Caribbean
17. Edward Scissorhands
18. Stepmom
19. My Best Friend's Wedding
20. 101 Dalmatians
21. Scream
22. Scream 2
23. Scream 3
24. Big Daddy
25. Billy Madison
26. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
27. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
28. Heartbreakers
29. Dumb & Dumber
30. Two Week's Notice
31. Scary Movie
32. Look Who's Talking
33. Blade
34. Blade II
35. O
36. Titanic
37. Carrie
38. Carrie 2: The Rage
39. Daddy Day Care
40. Legally Blonde
41. Austin Powers
42. Storm of the Century
43. Oliver and Company
44. The Two Towers
45. Return of the King
46. Mighty Ducks
47. Fast and the Furious
48. 2 Fast, 2 Furious
49. A Walk To Remember
50. XXX
51. Beauty and the Beast
52. I Know What You Did Last Summer
53. I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
54. The Sound of Music
55. Mary Poppins
56. Tuck Everlasting
57. The Patriot
58. The Wizard of Oz
59. Teaching Mrs Tingle
60. Crossroads
61. Now and Then
62. Pearl Harbor
63. Just Married
64. Cast Away
65. Radio Flyer
66. Final Destination
67. Lady and the Tramp
68. Shallow Hal
69. 40 Days and 40 Nights
70. Bring It On
71. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
72. The Outsiders
73. The Matrix
74. Perfect Storm
75. Cruel Intentions
76. Never Been Kissed
77. Clueless
78. Bruce Almighty
79. Remember the Titans
81. Girl, Interrupted
82. SWAT
83. Sixth Sense
84. Phone Booth
85. The Lion King
86. Urban Legends
87. Nightflier
88. Lion King 2
89. Little Mermaid
90. American Pie
91. Center Stage
92. Scooby Doo
93. Bedazzled
94. Mrs. Doubtfire
95. Save the Last Dance
96. My Girl
97. American Beauty
98. Romeo & Juliet
99. Lost World
100. Casper
101. Miss Congeniality
102. The Rock
103. Face/Off
104. Moulin Rouge
105. Sleeping Beauty
106. Alien
107. Tombstone
108. Lake Placid
109. The Recruit
110. The Shining
111. Pocahontas
112. Win a Date with Tad Hamilton
113. Koyaanisqatsi
114. Princess Mononoke
115. Braveheart
116. Gone With the Wind
117. She's All That
118. Heavy Metal
119. Remo Williams
120. Fried Green Tomatoes
121. Steel Magnolias
122. Fight Club
123. Star Wars
124. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
125. Small Soldiers
126. Clerks
127. Magnolia
128. Wild Things
129. The Nightmare Before Christmas
130. What Dreams May Come
131. Fierce Creatures
132. Frequency
133. The Others
134. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
135. Along Came A Spider
136. Annie (1982 version)
137. Eyes Wide Shut
138. How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
139. Practical Magic
140. Down With Love
141. The Fifth Element
142. Donnie Darko
143. Kiki's Delivery Service
144. Big Fish
145. Chasing Amy
146. Unbearable Lightness of Being
147. Parent Trap
148. Great Expectations
149. Bridges of Madison County
150. I am Sam
151. Life as a House
152. Prince of Tides
153. Kill Bill Vol. 1
154. Bowling For Columbine
155. Elf
156. Spun
157. Weekend at Bernie's
158. The House of Mirth
159. The Rose
160. Chocolat
161. Requiem for a Dream
162. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
163. Mask
164. Gia
165. Secretary
166. The Big Lebowski
167. Rushmore
168. Return to Me
169. Muppets Take Manhattan
170. The X-Files: Fight The Future
171. Moonstruck
172. Happy Gilmore
173. Mona Lisa Smile
174. Bad Boys
175. Bad Boys 2
176. The Delta Force
177. A League of Their Own
178. Murder by Death
179. The Hot Chick
180. Shrek
181. Groundhog Day
182. Liar Liar
183. House of Sand & Fog
184. Adventures in Babysitting
185. Monty Python & the Holy Grail
186. Hedwig & the Angry Inch
187. As Good As It Gets
188. Murder By Numbers
189. The Unsaid
190. 12 Monkeys
191. Igby Goes Down
192. The Mummy
193. The New Guy
194. Girl
195. And Starring Pancho Villa As Himself
196. Valentine
197. Wag the Dog
198. Spirited Away
199. Almost Famous
200. Royal Tenenbaums
201. Citizen Kane
202. Lost In Translation
203. Sid and Nancy
204. Empire Records
205. Suspiria
206. Niagara Niagara
207. Sweethearts (w/ Janeane Garafolo)
208. Dead Man Walking
209. My Dog Skip
210. American History X
211. Minority Report
212. Spaceballs
213. The Last of the Mohicans
214. The Mists of Avalon
215. The Horseman on the Roof (French version)
216. The Birdcage
217. Peter Pan (2003)
218. Frailty
219. Men of Honor
220. Meet the Parents
221. Bend It Like Beckham
222. Speed
223. The Count of Monte Cristo
224. Highlander
225. Die Hard
226. The Goonies
227. The Last Unicorn
228. Monsters, Inc.
229. Muriel's Wedding
230. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure
231. Cold Mountain
232. Battle Royale
233. Tampopo
234. A Face In the Crowd
235. Tigerland
235. Road Trip
236. Better than Chocolate
237. Y tu mama tambien
238. Vertigo
239. Ordinary People
240. Plata Quemada
241. Dil Se
242. Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
243. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
244. Some Like It Hot
245. Andrei Rublev
246. A Matter of Life and Death
247. Metropolis
248. Dawn of the Dead
249. Ed Wood
250. My Beautiful Laundrette
251. The Killer
252. The Princess Bride
253. Gallipoli
254. Black Hawk Down
255. Aliens
256. Breakfast At Tiffany's
257. Pitch Black
258. Casablanca
259. My Fair Lady
260. Monster's Ball
261. Death Becomes Her
262. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
263. What Lies Beneath
264. Boondock Saints
265. Velvet Goldmine
266. Elizabeth
267. Anne of the Thousand Days
268. Doctor Zhivago
269. Chicago
270. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
275. Whale Rider
276. Victor/Victoria
277. Sense and Sensibility
278. Freaky Friday
279. Love Actually
280. The Philadelphia Story
281. Roman Holiday
282. What a Girl Wants
283. Zoolander
284. Count of Monte Cristo
285. Amelie
286. Dave
287. Brother Bear
288. A Wrinkle In Time
289. Rabbit Proof Fence
290. Bram Stoker's Dracula
291. Benny and Joon
292. October Sky
293. Mulan
294. Singing in the Rain
295. The Ninth Gate
296. Legend of the Red Dragon
297. Robin Hood: Men in Tights
298. Resident Evil 1
299. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
300. Playing Mona Lisa
301. The Man from Snowy River
302. Lady Hawke
303. Camelot
304. Catch Me if You Can
305. Holes
306. The Matrix: Reloaded
307. Cookie's Fortune
308. Crazy In Alabama
309. From Hell
310. The Ghost And The Darkness
311. La Vita e Bella
312. Triumph of the Will
313. Escape From Sobibor
314. Enemy at the Gates
315. Shining Through
316. Inventing the Abbotts
317. Bridget Jones's Diary
318. Whatever It Takes
319. Dogma
320. Mallrats
321. Hamlet (Mel Gibson version)
322. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh version)
323. Much Ado About Nothing
324. Life Is Beautiful
325. My Big Fat Greek Wedding
326. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
327. Pump Up The Volume
328. Pi
329. The War At Home
330. The Secret Garden
331. Intermission
332. Dead Man
333. Captain Horatio Hornblower (with Gregory Peck)
334. Gangster No. 1
335. Tonari No Totoro
336. The Fox and the Hound
337. The Animatrix
338. Spiderman
339. The Empire Strikes Back
340. Seabiscuit
341. Terminator
342. Alien 3
343. The Exorcist
344. Poltergeist
345. Super Mario Brothers
346. Frankenstein (Kenneth Branaugh)
347. Titan A.E.
348. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
349. Pride and Prejudice
350. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
351. The Black Stallion (1978)
352. 28 Days Later
353. West Side Story
354. Nausicaa
355. Giant
356. The Road to El Dorado
357. The Good Son
358. American Pie 2
359. Perfect Blue
360. All I Want
361. Enemy of the State
362. The Hours
363. Gladiator
364. Deep Impact
365. Equilibrium
366. Laputa - Castle in the Sky
367. Cowboy Bebop
368. Land Before Time
369. Rocky Horror Picture Show
370. A Clockwork Orange
371. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
372. Reservoir Dogs
373. M (1931)
374. Happiness (1998)
375. Pink Flaminogos
376. 2001: A Space Odyssey
377. Rear Window
378. Manhunter
379. Jane Eyre
380. Indochine
381. To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! -Julie Newmar
382. The Wedding Singer
383. Closet Land
384. The Birdcage
385. Galaxy Quest
386. Truly Madly Deeply
387. The Contender
389. Sweet November
340. White Oleander
341. Wit
342. Dancer In The Dark
343. The English Patient
344. Moulin Rouge
345. The Horse Whisperer
346. The Remains of the Day
347. Funny Girl
348. Hercules
349. That Thing You Do
350. Nuts
351. Jersey Girl
352. Ghostbusters
353. Labyrinth
354. Quills
355. Sleepy Hollow
356. Interview with the Vampire
357. Sunshine State
358. Love Song
359. They
360. We Were Soldiers
361. The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
362. Unbreakable
363. Nurse Betty
364. Billy Elliot
365. Snatch
366. Dick
367. Raiders of the Lost Ark
368. The Mummy Returns
369. Mystery, Alaska
370. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
371. Anastasia
372. Blue
373. White
374. Red
375. Two or Three Things I Know About Her
376. Strictly Ballroom
377. Secret Window
378. Scooby Doo 2
379. The Haunted Mansion
380. Once Upon A Time In Mexico
381. The One

What would your Anime life be like? by hearthlight
Name:
Gender:
Your looks:	Kitty ears and few clothes.
Your best friend:	A sickeningly sweet schoolgirl
Your powers:	FIRE!
Your beloved:	Your best friend.
Your occupation:	Student.
Your ending:	Moving and life affirming.
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

I GOT A SCHOOLGIRL!!!!

Meme-ing

1: Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says:
2.10 When Saint forms part of a personal name, the bearer's usage is followed:

2: Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?
The wall.

3: What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Documentary on Australian film maker getting shafted by US production system only to have his film be the highest grossing on it's opening weekend.

4: WITHOUT LOOKING, guess what the time is:
4:55 PM

5: Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
4:35 PM

6: With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
Clock ticking, other guy in lab sniffling.

7: When did you last step outside? what were you doing?
About an hour ago, to walk to uni from the car park.

8: Before you came to this website, what did you look at?
Research Methods and Practices Assignment 1

9: what are you wearing?
Shorts, blue shirt with navy piping and NINJ4 hoody

10: Did you dream last night?
Yes

11: When did you last laugh?
Just before when I was reading the new Raymondo Person.

12: What is on the walls of the room you are in?
Notices and ugly beige paint.

13: Seen anything weird lately?
Nup.

14: What do you think of this quiz?
Well it sure beats doing an assignment!

15: What is the last film you saw?
Scooby Doo 2

16: If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?
A House

17: Tell me something about you that I don't know:
My man bosoms are shrinking.

18: If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?:
People would care more.

19: Do you like to dance?
With a nice young lady, yes. By myself: well I don't think that can be classed as dancing.

20: George Bush: is he a power-crazy nut case or some one who is finally doing something that has needed to be done for years?
He's an American.

21(a): Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Sarah Jane

21(b): Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
Thomas Matthew

22: Would you ever consider living abroad?
Yes. Wanna give up t3h c4shz0r?

Walkies!!!

STEPS : 6093 | KM : 2.7 | CALORIES : 827

In an effort to regain my once slim and girlish figure (ie, the figure of a prepubescent girl as opposed to the strapping Russian peasant girl I exhibit now), I have started doing some walking and such.

To that end I bought a pedometer on the way home from work today and henceforth will be posting my stats each day. Like you care. And once a week we'll see what my work has wrought.

I hate being almost 22.

I was driving over to Geebung today to deliver a PA and there were a bunch of Clayfield College girls in uniform running in the rain.

*sigh*

Let's Sit Back And Wait

Well I put my application in for WWDC today. We'll have to see how it goes.

Since last year I've been teaching myself how to program in ObjC and Cocoa and I'm working on two apps, but I have to see whether or not the AUC thinks it's worth sending me again. I hope they do because now I have a better idea of how it goes so I can make even more use of it... Get there earlier for starters so I can get over the jetlag. And I have a job so I could stoppover somewhere on the way there or back I suppose.

I do have a rather spiffing entry in the Apple Design Awards this year, but we'll have to see what happens with it too. If we get a nomination or something I think someone mentioned last year that we'd get a shot at WWDC this year, but I'm not sure.

While my iBook is away I'm back to working on the iMac. Rendering sure does take a while, but I can't get Photoshop or GoLive to install on this machine. Also I keep mistyping stuff because actually have to push the keys down on this one where as on the iBook it seems as though my hands effortlessly glide over the keys.

BLANKET APOLOGY FOR MY APALLING SPELLING TO ANYONE I'VE BEEN IMing WITH THIS WEEK
I hope I get the iBook back soon.

My Gifts Aren't Being Noticed...

Your True Nature by llScorpiusll
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The quality that most appeals to you:	Sense of Humour
In a survival situation, you:	Act crazy as a diversion
Your hidden talent is:	Adaptability
Your gift is:	Sexual prowess
In groups, you:	Work for a common goal
Your best quality is:	Your generosity
Your weakness is:	Your lack of imagination
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Broken iBook

My iBook is a little stuffed. The screen won't work for whatever reason, so I have put it in for fixing. In other news my ThinkGeek order arrived today.

Neen!!!!

Announcement

I just found out my sister got engaged on the weekend.

So to all those people telling me that I was just being self-pitying and such in that post a week or to ago : FUCK YOU.

Oh and congratulations to Kristen and Brendan.

Soooooooooooo Boooooooring

Picture : Business graduates starting jobs at the biggest Accounting firm in the world are taken for a few days to a remote resort where they are told about the company, what is expected of them and to allay any fears they may have about beginning a career in the most boring of all branches of mathematics.

Picture #2 : Bill, bored out of his brain with no net access (apart from this uber-pricey WiFi prepaid crap), no good TV and no time to do much at all.

We hacked the inhouse movie box in our room (am sharing with a workmate who is working the resort with me for this function) and could only unlock the adult channels. He's happily married, and I'm pure of mind and of heart and to tell you the truth I really couldn't care less about ugly people rooting on TV, so we reset the telebox.

That took about 5 minutes of time and it was the most exciting time I've had here.

The only thing making the boredom worthwhile is the knowledge that I'm getting a phat payoff next payday.

And now I have to go video more zaniness.

Meme Thing

(_) I have never been drunk
(X) I never have smoked pot
(X) I never have kissed a member of the opposite sex
(X) I never have kissed a member of the same sex
(X) I never crashed a friend's car
(X) I have never been to Japan
(_) I never rode in a taxi
(X) I never have been in love
(X) I never had sex
(X) I never have had sex in public
(_) I never have been dumped
(X) I never shoplifted
(X) I never have been fired
(X) I have never cut myself on purpose
(X) I never have been in a fist fight
(X) I never snuck out of my parent's house
(X) I never pissed on myself
(X) I never had sex with a member of the opposite sex
(X) I never have been arrested
(X) I never made out with a stranger
(X) I never stole anything from my job
(X) I never celebrated New Year's in Time Square
(X) I never went on a blind date
(X) I never lied to a friend
(X) I never had a crush on a teacher
(X) I never celebrated Mardi-Gras in New Orleans
(X) I never have been to Europe
(X) I never skipped school
(X) I never slept with a co-worker
(X) I never have been fisted and/or have fisted anyone
(X) I never have thrown up in a bar
(X) I never have purposely set myself on fire
(_) I never have eaten sushi
(X) I never have been snowboarding
(X) I never have been happy with myself
(X) I never have met a movie star
(X) I never had sex in a pool
(X) I never went to a prom
(X) I never bungee jumped
(_) I never have been to a pop concert
(X) I never have dated someone for over a year
(X) I never sold naked pictures of myself
(_) I have never been in a car accident
(_) I have never seen a dog naked.
(_) I have never slept in the nude.
(X) I have never had a one night stand.
(_) I've never eaten cheesecake
(X) I've never had jury duty

My Wishlist

ShoujoCam is back online...

Should be more online permanent-like once Optus install my ADSL. I had issues with hard disks today.

Because I work between three or four different computers depending on my location or need for either recording spaces, expensive audio monitoring or solitude I was packing a LaCie D2 80GB drive. It had FireWire (IEEE1394) and was great for video, audio, you name it. Basically it was a small case with a FireWire to IDE convertor in it, attached to a power supply and Western Digital 80GB drive, 8MB cache, etc.

Well, the firewire ports were connected to the PCB inside the case, not the case itself, so this heavy-duty feeling (6mm thick metal) case was only hiding the shoddiness inside. As soon as you push and pull the connectors (which you do with a mobile drive) a few hundred times, the solder weakens then fractures or breaks.

And you get dead ports or an intermittent connection.

Lucky me noticed this last week while I was working on a job for a client. Lucky I could trash enough junk off the internal iBook HDD to get it done. My main problem, however, came out of the fact that the drive is only 6 months old. We couldn't find the receipt and they wouldn't take a credit card statement as a proof-of-purchase. They would fix it and bill me for it, but 2 hours @ $45 plus parts and postage.

Plus they wanted me to back up the data!!! I mean, there's nothing wrong with THE DRIVE, just THE PORTS!!! Why did I buy the drive in the first place? Gah!!

Anyway, I bought a new drive casing today, plus a 120GB Western Digital Drive, 8MB cache and the guy at MusicLab also threw in another case for $100, so it cost me about the same as getting the drive repaired, but I know that the case construction on this one is hardcore.

Lesson, don't buy a LaCie d2 series drive if you want a long-lasting mobile solution.

Also, despair haunts me. I feel very unattractive. I'm beginning to resent all people with kids. Especially those who treat theirs like crap.

And I don't like multigrain bread.

The seeds get stuck in my teeth.

Large One Here

I feel shamed into updating my blog. The last update wasn't really an entry, but more of a quick cut and paste.

So here is a large amount of filled in stuff since my last real blog post. It's like inJohnny Mnemonic when Johnny has this huge pile of info in his brain that is pushing to get out and it all comes out in bursts occasionally. I hear they made a movie of that a few years ago. I may get it out one of these days. All right here goes. With headlines even!!!

Zadie

Zadie's all like, gone and stuff. And she hasn't been on the internet for ages because she's high falootin' it around Melbourne with here wacky Melbourne peeps. I feel all lonely. There's nobody (apart from Patrick) to textually bitchslap me into perspective and brainful submission about stuff anymore. And no more hugs from short cute girls. Or Cassie. Oh well, there's always Brisbane Supanove. And maybe that Melbourne anime con I was gonna check out this year.

Work

So I'm really not enamoured with work at all. I mean, I like this job but I hate having to get up so early and I hate getting home at the time I do. I think my natural body rhythms want to get up around 11am and go to sleep at 4am and then I'd be fine and happy, like I was in uni last year. But this getting up at 6am and going to bed at 10pm just feels weird. Plus this thing that I'm earning pretty good cash but it never seems to be enough. I always seem to be spending it on petrol or books or something.

Uni

Uni seems cool. I'm in week 3 and just got my booking for the Orchestral Hall to record my major project, but I feel kind of "out of it" because I'm only there one day a week.

KLOK

We have a gig this Friday night but are otherwise just working away. The only motivation we seem to have is when we have an upcoming gig. DoofPat wants to wait before we start pitching clubs and stuff, but if the only thing we get going for is gigs, wouldn't it seem logical to be doing more of them?

Travel
God, I want to go overseas again. Just for the stimulus, just for the taste of it, just for the feeling. I just can't afford it. I should be able to but I can't at the moment.

Moving Out

Kind of mutual agreement that I move out of home at the end of the year has been reached. Bout time. I'll be 22 and working and stuff, but I'm not looking forward to the whole "looking for housemates" thing. I'd rather buy a house and have a mortgage and have housemates who help pay my mortgage off, but I don't think that's realistic.

Lovelife

NULL

Well, yeah. There was a girl I was interested in but there's no reciprocation. There was another, but she's not right for me. Additionally, I found myself slipping into the bad escapist habit of reading soppy fanfiction, which combined with re-reading the 5th Harry Potter book has seen me dreaming of weird Hogwarts dreams.

Except the dream I had last night. I woke up to walls covered with beads of blood, found blood on my bedsheets and when I walked out I found that I was living in a sharehouse and when I asked one of my housemates what had happened, he told me that I had gotten together with a girl that night. I found myself wondering why it was her, and trying to remember what had happened, because I know the girl in real life, but I'm not interested in her at all. Then I really woke up and was all, "Phew. Thank God it was a dream," but then I started freaking out wondering what the damn dream meant!

Well, I hope that fuels discussion in the HaloScan Comments again. I'm off to have dinner and some psychoanalysis.

Attention All Girls

You are a child's kiss. Completely sweet and
innocent and pure. You mean no harm and only
love in your sweet kisses.


What kind of kiss are you?
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Calling All AR Developers

A big thing in wearable computing is the concept of Augmented Reality (AR). The idea that you can have your headset overlaying reality and augmenting it. Don't like the graffitti on the wall? Your computer can replace it with a digital scenic view or classic painting. You could attach virtual post-it notes to things. You could meet someone in the street and instantly have all their information scroll up in a sidebar so it looks like you're a people person instead of a freak wearing a computer to compensate for your personal inadequacies.

I'd like one to put up a display with stats, like an RPG or a renai game. That way when I'm talking to the girl I'm interested I can gauge responses and such correctly by having the data in a way I'm familar with and that I can easily understand and observe the effects my actions have on the situation.

That way I wouldn't feel like I feel tonight where I'm not sure if I said the right thing or freaked her out or what. Honestly. I hate my fucking life. I wonder if I can get some kind of warranty replacement for my human relational skills? I'm seriously considering it because these one's I'm running are fully defective. I don't know where I stand at all at anytime, I don't know what I'm doing 95% of the time and the other 5% I'm suffering from insane delusions that "Hey. This girl is cute, funny, intelligent. And she seems to like me. Maybe we could hit it off" that always turn out to be more gutting that a triple vindaloo made with senna leaves.

In other news, I'm a stark raving basket case, destined to be alone for all time while everybody overtakes me in life career-wise, relationship-wise and family-wise.

So filled with hate...

So I apply for iinet's bangin', well priced ADSL service. Then I get the following e-mail


A full Service Qualification has now been conducted on your nominated phone
line. Unfortunately your application for ADSL has been rejected due to
Incompatible Infrastructure ? RIM (Remote Integrated Multiplexer).

RIM (Remote Integrated Multiplexer) technology allows a communications carrier
to run fibre-optic cable to a location and then convert the fibre signal into
traditional phone services. RIMs are significantly cheaper to install in remote
locations where there is no existing copper infrastructure, such as new outer-
suburban housing estates, outback bush and islands. Unfortunately, ADSL cannot
currently be applied to phone lines running through a RIM.

As this is a phone line hardware incompatibility, there is nothing iiNet can do
further with the nominated phone number. You are welcome to supply an
alternative line number for iiNet to try for ADSL compatibility if you have
one, or you may like to consider one of iiNet?s many dial-up options.


And then, I start getting their NEWSLETTER in my e-mail!!! I mean, you won't subscribe me to your service, but you'll send me your propaganda!!!!!???!??!?!! And additionally, I can't get tel$tra cable either, and I'm not forking out almost a grand to get satellite. So now we have Tel$tra, the national telco unable to provide somebody who lives 23km from the center of Brisbane, in the middle of an established suburb with either the infrastructure or ability to recieive broadband internet.



Anybody else see something wrong with this? Oh, boy can I count the fucking ways.

Ewwwww...

Apparently, Karaoke on Friday night was not for Bec's birthday, so I stand corrected, both in my comments section and in outraged type on her blog.

In other news, I feel like crap. I kind of got a little summer flu from work last week. As some of you know, the result of four years of Music Technology studies at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music has seen me gain employment as an AV Technician for a company that does conference staging and general AV hire. Consequently a sizeable part of my job involves running all over Brisbane in an econovan delivering whiteboards, data projectors and other assorted AV items. It's been really hot this last week and jumping in and out of 30 degree heat into a 23 degree air-conditioned building then back through the 30 degree heat into a 40 degree van doesn't help if you're trying to avoid an illness. Additionally, my throat was hurting a little on Thursday night so Friday night karaoke didn't help none.

On the plus side I got to sing more Savage Garden songs to piss off Patrick, but Shawn sang too and because she's his girlfriend his outrage was tempered. I also sang "I've Got Faith" which for those of you who bother to stay up late and watch channel 9, is the theme from Star Trek Enterprise, and because my voice was all husky from singing "Bohemian Rhapsody" I nailed it all cool.

Now I'm sitting in the office at work on a Sunday night waiting for people to arrive so we can go and pull plasma screens out of the Brisbane International Motor Show. Fun.

Wow, Blue Fairy!! I'm a Real Blog!!!

Panic tells me that my blog looks too much like a real one, what with all the quizilla quizzes all over it. So with great aplomb ask you to find out "What Kind Of Blog Do You Have?

Okay, so here's the lowdown. My band has it's webpage up at http://klokband.tripod.com. I went ice skating last night and got horriffic blisters from too small skates. Looks as though I shall have to buy a pair. At least I can afford to now. Uni goes back in two weeks, Bec is doing karaoke on Friday night for her birthday, Paul Coleman Trio are playing Gateway on Saturday night and Sunday night I have to strikedown the Brisbane International Motor Show. Yay, fun!.

This One I Agree With

The Dreamer
Escapes from society into a daydream where beauty
and adventure are all at her fingertips. She
still seeks to find aspects of her imagined
world in the real one, childlike almost in her
perspective, naive at times but genius at
others, a thirst for new ideas, new
information, new places all in the hope to find
what she longs for, but as of yet can only find
in her dreams...


A unique perspective on one's inner self: who are you?
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Accurate?

You are one of the few out there whose wings are
truly ANGELIC. Selfless, powerful, and
divine, you are one blessed with a certain
cosmic grace. You are unequalled in
peacefulness, love, and beauty. As a Being of
Light your wings are massive and a soft white
or silver. Countless feathers grace them and
radiate the light within you for all the world
to see. You are a defender, protector, and
caretaker. Comforter of the weak and forgiver
of the wrong, chances are you are taken
advantage of once in awhile, maybe quite often.
But your innocence and wisdom sees the good in
everyone and so this mistreatment does not make
you colder. Merciful to the extreme, you will
try to help misguided souls find themselves and
peace. However not all Angelics allow
themselves to be gotten the better of - the
Seraphim for example will be driven to fighting
for the sake of Justice and protection of those
less powerful. Congratulations - and don't ever
change - the world needs more people like you.


*~*~*Claim Your Wings - Pics and Long Answers*~*~*
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See????!??!?! More Evidence!!????!

Aphrodite/Eros


?? Which Of The Greek Gods Are You ??
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I'm A Princess!!

My inner child is six years old!

Look what I can do! I can walk, I can run, I can
read! I like to do stuff, and there's a whole
big world out there to do it in. Just so long
as I can take my blankie and my Mommy and my
three best friends with me, of course.


How Old is Your Inner Child?
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Been Chillin'

And whooooooooeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

So I been kinda chillin' over that last week or so, what with no work or nothing. Watched the Kevin Smith back catalogue of films from the local Video Ezy. One thing that pisses me off is the shitty quality of the DVDs I've been hiring. Not the content, althought Black Knight is pure garbage, but the actual condition of the DVDs. I've had to take 3 back because my DVD player wouldn't read them or would stutter and shut itself down when it encountered bad encoding errors.

I'm used to seeing DIVX clips mosaic over like an epileptic vision switcher's paintbox control, but on these DVDs!!!

Also saw A Clockwork Orange all the way through, instead of in bits and pieces, as well as The Excorcist. It was interesting, watching a pretty hokey film rendition of demons incarnate in a pre-pubescent girl, followed by the exorcism itself.

This coupled with the treatment of Christian dogmatic theology in Dogma was quite thought provoking. In The Excorcist the two priests go through all this ritual crap to cast out a demon, when in reality the simple commandment to leave, spoken by any Christian (and I mean it in the "one who aspires to be Christ-like", not in the "Believes-in-God-At-Christmas") in the name of Jesus should have been successful.

I don't know, maybe I'm desensitized to violence and horror or maybe because I know the outcome of the game before it's even been played, but films like The Excorcist, Stigmata, End of Days, etc aren't that spooky or anything to me.

In other news, KLOK has another gig at SU Leaders weekend. When I pay off my credit card I'll finally get the website launched under it's own domain name, but for the meantime I am tweaking design.

I must go now and have lunch. At 8.45pm.

Boy do I feel rock and roll!!!

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Sexy Body Part Is	Nothing
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Angel Type	Cherub
Wing Color	Purple
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