310504
20:45
i'm getting so much spam in my in box,
it's freaking me out. yesterday i got 14 emails
during one collection and all of them were for
viagara. now, either elvis is trying to tell me
something, or this is getting out of control.
i might have to finally take the step of getting
spam blocker software for my email. ah, something
else to pay for each month - curse you spam freaks,
ain't you ever heard of smart marketing? i.e.
sending information to people who give a fuck.
ah, what do they care? it probably cost them $30
for a million email addresses. if one poor sap
buys a bottle of blue pills, they've made their
money back. meanwhile, misery for the rest of
us. and you know what makes me even more mad?
spam email about spam email blocking software!
how screwed up is that? truly, ladies
and gents, we live in a sick world.
this weekend was largely spent twiddling some
virtual knobs and putting the finishing touches
to some music. it's been so very long since i
put finger to keyboard and came up with new sounds
- and so an enormous vote of thanks to my good
friends phena and duncan who joined me in this
exercise. won't reveal much more at this stage,
but once i find some solid mp3 hosting, i'll get
some demos on line for y'all. bet you can't wait
:-) no really, stop holding your breath at the
back, you're going blue (ya freak).
so
what's in today's mailbox?
- some other dude has a zero-g web site too! and
he's got some very nice choons on there as well.
it's all one big zero gravity family round here.
check out zer0gsounds.com
- robert fisk in z-mag
says today ""U can't wait to see Abu
Ghraib prison reduced to rubble by the Americans
... it will be turned to dust in order to destroy
a symbol of Saddam's brutality. That's what President
Bush tells us. So the re-writing of history still
goes on."
- andi peters, yes - he of bbc
broom closet fame, will be visiting my
place of employment tomorrow and will appear
on our alt.version of 'desert island discs' (called
'out of the box'). his selections include the
backstreet boys, kylie and cameo
- the 'not for little boys' corner - charisma
carpenter, aka cordelia from buffy, has
bared
her all for playboy. i'm saying absolutely
nothing ... other than my mate ken will be delerious
with excitement :-) i'm sure that's the only reason
he sat through so many seasons with me. but then,
what's my excuse? answers on a very small postcard...
(btw, try and reach charisma's official site and
you''ll see that "the server is temporarily
unavailable due to the site owner reaching his/her
bandwidth limit". no, really? who'd have
thought it...)
- a
long interview with director richard
'donnie darko' kelly on his directors
cut version of the movie that spawned the dreadful
gary jules and the not-so-dreadful gyllenhaal
family
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270504 20:04
this morning, i worked out that i can
get from the house to the train station, into
town, walk to the record store, get back on a
train, walk from the station to work - all in
just about an hour. now that i know that, my wallet
is going to take a hammering. today i picked up
a 2nd hand buffalo daughter cd
and felt very pleased with myself.
yesterday's news was that one half of the jungle
brothers came into the radio station (where i
work...). nice to see, but even better to hear
him playback some archive jungle brothers
material. if ever there was an under-rated hip
hop crew, it's the JBs. much respect to them :-)
here's some things i learned from my
email inbox today -
- every two weeks, apple will send me a newsletter
that will keep me informed about QuickTime and
related products and technologies
- "ivan
smagghe might be effortlessly cool but it
doesn't stop him from having no social skills"
- napster
is now live in the uk and i can get five free
songs
- the world's
first public 'space airport' has been announced
- i can get a special
mail order offer (ahead of the official release
date 28th june) of eintstürzende neubauten
'kalte sterne - early recordings' plus the new
double CD re-release of 'tabula rasa'
- andrew weatherall has described sixtoo's
new album as "the best thing ninja tune has
ever put out". i can certainly
confirm that it's one of the best albums of 2004
thus far -if you like fractured, downbeat hip
hop that is
- the new version of amadeus'
audio software (perfect for importing vinyl
onto yr hard drive) "has a nasty bug"
but the web site has an even newer, cleaner version.
apologies all round
- IGF2 is a powerful erection enhancing product
that will create erections so strong and full
that over time your penis will actually grow as
a direct result
- Database error in vBulletin 2.2.9:
Invalid SQL: UPDATE session SET lastactivity=1085186981
(ok, i'll stop now...)
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260504 23:10
both new(ish)
and tyrone
shoelaces blogs posted variants of this image
today, so i felt like i ought to add to the bandwagon.
the caption reads "10,000 volts in your pocket,
guilty or innocent"
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240504 23:23
after an incredibly fallow period, finally
tonight i started to make some music that i'm
almost happy with. a few weeks ago, my fair fellow
buddy boy duncan and i began work on some music
together and had a few abortive sessions over
the intervening period. today, armed with a few
sample cds and a copy of pro-tools, everything
came together. it took me a while to realise that
i was never really going to create anything worthwhile
on my own. i have a sense of the music that i
want to make, but no ability or training to actually
make it happen. so, with a musician like duncan
on my side, surely i can't fail? i'm sure you're
waiting with bated breath for the results...
the 'don' t think i have noticed' corner - douglas
rushkoff has a new book out called 'club zero-g'.
it has nothing to do with this site, although
if you want to send me $100, i'll send you a home-made
badge and a tea-towel with two scottish terriers
on it (money not refundable).
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230504 22:37
so i spent all of tonight re-designing the site,
and - as if i didn't have enough work to do -
adding a second blog to these pages. i've gotten
a little bored just writing about mp3s
- there are other things in my life that might
be worth talking about. that doesn't mean to say
i'm going to stop writing about music (quite the
opposite, it continues on the left). i used to
write a life blog, for all of 2003 and the latter
half of 2002 -but as this year turned, i found
myself in a really weird place - a place i'd never
really been before. i was in a zone of extreme
happiness, total 100% joy. there i was, standing
watching the new year fireworks explode over sydney
opera house, with my beautiful new wife by my
side and life just couldn't have been more peachy.
there's an adage that i've forgotten that is something
along the lines of 'you can't create art from
a place of happiness'. well, seems i couldn't
write about my life from a place of happiness
either. which is obviously bullshit - just because
i'm happy doesn't mean that there aren't things
to talk about, things to say. so here i am, back
at the old blog game, just when i thought i was
all blogged out.
yesterday i went somewhere north of sydney, to
the hawkesbury river. we (whenever i say 'we'
you can be assured it's me and robyn, my other
half) took a trip with rob's brother + sister-in-law
and drove to a wonderfully remote part of the
greater enclosure of sydney, down by a very peaceful
stretch of the river. there was a little shop
/ cafe where we had breakfast and marvelled at
the fact that if you're the most remote cafe in
the area, you can get away with charging outrageous
prices. like $3.50 for a small bottle of coke.
$10 for tea and a cake. and they didn't even seem
that happy to see us either. i don't know why
they bother, there must be a happier way to rip
people off. we took a boat out for an hour and
watched small children being dragged around by
speed boats (on what i'm reliably informed is
called 'a biscuit' and is looks like a round inflatable).
on the way back to the happy cafe, the rich youth
of today rocked up on an expensive boat, literally
dashed ashore and sprinted up the cafe steps -
on the search for a crate of beer. you should
have seen the speed with which he moved - how
desperate was this guy? anyway, the cafe charged
him $50 for a crate ($22 in my local store), so
i was delighted to see that the 'remoteness tax'
applied even more substantially to those with
real money. i look at those kind of diving-suited
rich kids (who seem to have the attitude of a
pack of retarded donkeys), and i wonder how their
skin got so thick and their view of the world
got so myopic. in fact, i thank god i don't understand
as i'm sure it would only depress me. we finished
the day eating too many chips, catching a ferry
and falling asleep to 'crouching tiger, hidden
dragon'. a good way to end the day.
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