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!!!

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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.