Well, come June this year I'll have been on LiveJournal for a decade. That's pretty scary. Not that I've updated much over the last couple of years (nothing for 2012?!), but still, that's a damn long Internet presence. I'd disown most of the teenage shit now, but you get that ( Read more... )

Best year ever.

PS Damn straight this is Axver, returning from the blogging wilderness after not posting anything since March. I guess after many of my friends drifted away from blogging here, so did I. Also, much to I think everybody's surprise, after years of resisting I finally caved and joined Facebook. I've been using that frequently, so if ( Read more... )

Holy fucking shit, the Irish knocked off England in the cricket! Forget when they turfed out the hopeless Pakistan in 2007; this is something else. This has got to be one of the greatest results in cricket history, up there with Zimbabwe knocking off Australia in their very first ODI in 1983. God I hope they can sneak into the finals and fucking ( Read more... )

The natural disasters in this part of the world seem endless. I'm sure that by now you've all heard about the devastating earthquake in Christchurch last Tuesday. Luckily it seems all the family and friends Charlotte and I have in Canterbury are OK, though a couple of my cousins had fortuitous escapes by the sounds of it. It's so depressing to ( Read more... )

If I have learnt one thing in life, it is that headphones and I are not friends, as much as I love them. For somebody whose "good" pair of headphones never leave his desk, I am somehow quite adept at making one channel work only intermittently within 7-10 months of purchase. Meanwhile, Charlotte's "good" pair get all kinds of rough treatment and ( Read more... )

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Hi. I'm cropping up here again, and for once with an apolitical post! I'm mainly making this post for my own reference, but it's a good chance for me to whore out a good new Melbourne band to the world. If you think the idea of an indie pop sextet with layered female vocal harmonies sounds good, then check out Alpine on their MySpace or last.fm ( Read more... )

So we go from one election to another ( Read more... )

I knew it would probably take something big to get me back to blogging, and of course, it turns out to be politics - more to the point, my absolute inability to tolerate any longer the infuriating Australian political scene in the lead-up to the federal election ( Read more... )

I have been following with increasing agitation the moves being made by the right wing parties in Australia and New Zealand to cut back social welfare. In New Zealand, the governing National Party unveiled a raft of changes in March, while in Australia, the leader of the opposition Liberal Party, Tony Abbott, has been mouthing off about ( Read more... )