I'm excited!
Yeah that's right there's less than a week to go... then I get my Covenant fix! Joy! Stuff! Of course I'm gonna put in one final round of serious postering and promoting before the week is out, so expect to see me in a suburb near YOU. Tickets are actually selling pretty quickly (and I don't bullshit talk up ticket sales) so don't just expect to turn up on the night...
In other news I would like to announce that Rydges Hotel in the city (the one opposite Club UK) is now officially my new home (I've spent the last 5 out of 7 days there), except I'm still going to get my food from somewhere else because I have TASTE. Oh, and I learned last night that you can enjoy Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", no matter how much you might hate it (especially the key change when 'ol cokehead sings "And when the night falls..." just before launching into that famous screech).
!!!And on that note, in what is possibly the most exciting reality TV show concept EVER (which is admittedly not hard), Whitney and Bobby are having cameras follow them around for a few weeks as part of a new reality tv idea... this sounds like choice viewing, but then again there's only so many times you can watch people go to the bathroom and then come out sniffing, licking their lips and talking about crap.
In Other other news, Sam and I were joined by Happy Traveller on sunday for a quick browse of the CD and book sale down at Jeff's Shed (also starting to feel like a second home), and after wading through reams of crap we picked up a few cool purchases - most especially for me "Superjudge" by Monster Magnet - $10 fucking extremely well spent as I haven't found a single dud track on the album and was air-guitaring to most of the songs on first listen. Dave Wyndorf really is a Golden God. There are no more copies though so HA HA!
I also picked up a copy of a book that promises to be an intensely amusing read; a collection of stories from Australia's first newspaper (circa 1800 - 1806) called "Pig Bites Baby!"... the name says it all really. What really makes it funny is the fantastic language used throughout... this is how English SHOULD be spoken peoples! Listen up! Here are a few choice quotes: (reprinted without any permission)
"WANTED: A Handsome Sabre and Sword Belt. Any person having the above to dispose of will be treated with at a very liberal price by application to Mr. Mann" Handsome??? - How do you tell if a sword belt is 'handsome'???
"Last Monday a fine goat, with CART and HARNESS, was purchased for the sum of eight pounds ... The creature is acknowledged to be well broke in for draught, and the present owner will in all probability accustom him to the SADDLE" - OMFG he's going to ride a GOAT!!! Wrong!
"A house in Pitt's Row was on Tuesday evening searched on an information, and a stolen watch, together with one of the small pewter pans used in the Dispensary, found entombed in a large pumpkin" - Forget that safe, chuck all your shit in a PUMPKIN!
"On Friday a woman pressed her fondness upon an infant, which by dint of address she artfully wheedled from the mother's arms: after a few chirrups and caresses she parted with the little idol with much seeming unwillingness, and instantly disappeared, with a dollar she had managed unperceived to take from the little creature's hand" - 'chirrups', 'idol', 'creature'... I can never get sick of language like this.
"John Thompson, a prisoner for 14 years, was sentenced to stand one hour in the pillory, to which his ears are to be nailed; and afterwards to receive 1000 lashes" - Now that's zero tolerance.
"An animal whose species was never before found in the Colony, is in HIS EXCELLENCY's possession ... The creature is somewhat larger than the Waumbat, and although it might at first appearance be thought much to resemble it, nevertheless differs from that animal. The fore and hind legs are about of an equal length ... with which it must have climbed the highest trees with much facility. The fur that covers it is soft and fine, and of a mixed grey colour; the ears are short and open; the graveness of the visage ... would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity. The surviving pup generally clings to the back of the mother, or is caressed with a serenity that appears peculiarly characteristic; it has a false belly like the opossum, and its food consists solely of gum leaves, in the choice of which it is excessively nice." - Australia's love of the koala begins... 'nice' used to mean picky or fussy.
Okay that's enough of that now.
In other, other, OTHER news, a little bugger calling itself the I-Worm/Swen A has fucked my computer registry so when I click on most applications I get the following message:
X Windows cannot find 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again. To search for a file, click the start button and then click 'search'
Funnily enough, I did that, and when I searched and found the file (and subsequently clicked on it), I got the same message. The virus is now gone but my registry is fucked... funnily enough I can still access certain programs (like Internet Exploder) from bizarre little short-cuts. So anyway I have to track down a copy of Win XP since my copy is buried somewhere in my room and I need my computer working again sometime this year.
In even MORE news, psychonaut is also on this week, a laid-back pre-Covenant party, so get chore arses down there for drinkies and blabbing about how good saturday night is going to be :)))
In absolutely no news at all, people on LJ are bitching, backstabbing, and accusing their friends of not really being friends because they don't get attention ALL THE TIME. That's about as upset as I'm going to get about it because I have BETTER things to do, like staring blankly out the window.
Okay you can probably tell by now that I actually have a FREE DAY AT HOME, so I'll stop writing everything that comes into my head and let everyone else get back to talking about themselves ;)
Love Dan
Evil (is going on)
In other news I would like to announce that Rydges Hotel in the city (the one opposite Club UK) is now officially my new home (I've spent the last 5 out of 7 days there), except I'm still going to get my food from somewhere else because I have TASTE. Oh, and I learned last night that you can enjoy Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance With Somebody", no matter how much you might hate it (especially the key change when 'ol cokehead sings "And when the night falls..." just before launching into that famous screech).
!!!And on that note, in what is possibly the most exciting reality TV show concept EVER (which is admittedly not hard), Whitney and Bobby are having cameras follow them around for a few weeks as part of a new reality tv idea... this sounds like choice viewing, but then again there's only so many times you can watch people go to the bathroom and then come out sniffing, licking their lips and talking about crap.
In Other other news, Sam and I were joined by Happy Traveller on sunday for a quick browse of the CD and book sale down at Jeff's Shed (also starting to feel like a second home), and after wading through reams of crap we picked up a few cool purchases - most especially for me "Superjudge" by Monster Magnet - $10 fucking extremely well spent as I haven't found a single dud track on the album and was air-guitaring to most of the songs on first listen. Dave Wyndorf really is a Golden God. There are no more copies though so HA HA!
I also picked up a copy of a book that promises to be an intensely amusing read; a collection of stories from Australia's first newspaper (circa 1800 - 1806) called "Pig Bites Baby!"... the name says it all really. What really makes it funny is the fantastic language used throughout... this is how English SHOULD be spoken peoples! Listen up! Here are a few choice quotes: (reprinted without any permission)
"WANTED: A Handsome Sabre and Sword Belt. Any person having the above to dispose of will be treated with at a very liberal price by application to Mr. Mann" Handsome??? - How do you tell if a sword belt is 'handsome'???
"Last Monday a fine goat, with CART and HARNESS, was purchased for the sum of eight pounds ... The creature is acknowledged to be well broke in for draught, and the present owner will in all probability accustom him to the SADDLE" - OMFG he's going to ride a GOAT!!! Wrong!
"A house in Pitt's Row was on Tuesday evening searched on an information, and a stolen watch, together with one of the small pewter pans used in the Dispensary, found entombed in a large pumpkin" - Forget that safe, chuck all your shit in a PUMPKIN!
"On Friday a woman pressed her fondness upon an infant, which by dint of address she artfully wheedled from the mother's arms: after a few chirrups and caresses she parted with the little idol with much seeming unwillingness, and instantly disappeared, with a dollar she had managed unperceived to take from the little creature's hand" - 'chirrups', 'idol', 'creature'... I can never get sick of language like this.
"John Thompson, a prisoner for 14 years, was sentenced to stand one hour in the pillory, to which his ears are to be nailed; and afterwards to receive 1000 lashes" - Now that's zero tolerance.
"An animal whose species was never before found in the Colony, is in HIS EXCELLENCY's possession ... The creature is somewhat larger than the Waumbat, and although it might at first appearance be thought much to resemble it, nevertheless differs from that animal. The fore and hind legs are about of an equal length ... with which it must have climbed the highest trees with much facility. The fur that covers it is soft and fine, and of a mixed grey colour; the ears are short and open; the graveness of the visage ... would seem to indicate a more than ordinary portion of animal sagacity. The surviving pup generally clings to the back of the mother, or is caressed with a serenity that appears peculiarly characteristic; it has a false belly like the opossum, and its food consists solely of gum leaves, in the choice of which it is excessively nice." - Australia's love of the koala begins... 'nice' used to mean picky or fussy.
Okay that's enough of that now.
In other, other, OTHER news, a little bugger calling itself the I-Worm/Swen A has fucked my computer registry so when I click on most applications I get the following message:
X Windows cannot find 'C:\Windows\explorer.exe' Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again. To search for a file, click the start button and then click 'search'
Funnily enough, I did that, and when I searched and found the file (and subsequently clicked on it), I got the same message. The virus is now gone but my registry is fucked... funnily enough I can still access certain programs (like Internet Exploder) from bizarre little short-cuts. So anyway I have to track down a copy of Win XP since my copy is buried somewhere in my room and I need my computer working again sometime this year.
In even MORE news, psychonaut is also on this week, a laid-back pre-Covenant party, so get chore arses down there for drinkies and blabbing about how good saturday night is going to be :)))
In absolutely no news at all, people on LJ are bitching, backstabbing, and accusing their friends of not really being friends because they don't get attention ALL THE TIME. That's about as upset as I'm going to get about it because I have BETTER things to do, like staring blankly out the window.
Okay you can probably tell by now that I actually have a FREE DAY AT HOME, so I'll stop writing everything that comes into my head and let everyone else get back to talking about themselves ;)
Love Dan
Evil (is going on)