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2003-06-26T03:17:00.000+10:00

Ulrich Schnauss, Far Away Trains Passing By

This is like the best music I've heard in a long time...

Infusing the emotional intensity of classical compositions from J.S. Bach or Ludwig Van Beethoven with the electronic warmth of Richard James or Global Communication's more ambient work, Ulrich Schnauss has created a bit of a minor masterpiece with this six track album of unprecedented beauty.
One of the things that's so immediate is that Schnauss's creations ebb and flow without a single glitch or DSP effect in sight. The production here harkens back to the pre-glitch days of IDM or experimental electronica; a time when people composed tracks rather than simply tweaked them. Still - it would be folly to say that this is dancefloor friendy. The beats here are pretty thin on the ground, and while they offer just enough quantization and swing to give just the right amount of momentum, they simply pale in comparison to the lush orchestrations and tonality of the melodies. Schnauss it seems, it simply incapable of writing ugly songs.
NB. IDM = Intelligent Dance Music

What else can I say? Buy, it download or whatever. Your life will not be complete until you hear this. The song Nobody's Home is extra good, so good it gave me chills down my spine... I really would like to buy it, this is actually one of the few CD's I would be willing to spend money on, but I don't know where to get a copy. It's released on a relatively obscure label, and I've had a hard time finding it.
In conclusion, Ulrich Schnauss kicks ass.

2003-06-20T02:11:00.000+10:00

The Lemon

What a poor excuse of a website.

2003-06-19T01:43:00.000+10:00

Yes, I have finished Angela's Ashes, quite awhile ago actually. It was an excellent book, and I will look for 'Tis... I love how he calls it the "excitement", haha. It took me a few chapters to be drawn in by the book, but I was hooked afterwards.

Speaking of Ireland, Chicane's track Saltwater is such a fitting tune to for the country. Och aye.

2003-06-02T00:53:00.000+10:00

fucking blogs, they're shit. it's all shit

2003-05-19T22:23:00.000+10:00

Does every pop music video clip have to have a DJ in the background spinning records, and doing mock scratching movements even though it is quite clear that a record is not used at all in the song? Well maybe not every clip, but at least one of them that I've seen recently...

2003-05-16T12:49:00.000+10:00

To get your own one of these things, click here

It's been raining heaps lately, and it sucks cause I can't be bothered getting my umbrella out, because if I use my umbrella, it'll get wet (duh) and then it'll wreck all the things inside my bag when I pack it away. So I carry an umbrella around, but I don't use it and so I always end up soaked.

2003-05-09T23:07:00.000+10:00

I've begun reading Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt. I haven't formed an opinion on it yet, but it's probably good since it's won a whole heap of prizes and stuff. I better like it, otherwise I will have wasted ten dollars. Which could have been better spent on a pack of faux-vinyl CD-R's. Me wantee!

2003-05-04T00:40:00.000+10:00

I would like to thank the people who take the time and effort to convert their vinyl's into mp3s, and share them on the internet so that poor, lazy, turntableless people like me could truly appreciate good music.

2003-05-01T22:23:00.000+10:00

I finished my assignment on time.

The Onion
Chimp Study On Human-Evasion Response To Feces-Hurling Nearly Complete
MADISON, WI—Chimpanzees at the University of Wisconsin's Primate Laboratory are nearing completion of a two-year study on human-evasion response to hurled feces, sources reported Tuesday. "Our research shows that Homo sapiens experience extreme agitation and an urge to flee when pelted with baseball-sized lumps of primate scat," said Dr. Jingles, speaking from his research cage. "In 10 out of 10 cases, our test subjects retreated to the far corner of the room and screamed, 'Stop! Stop! AIIIIGH!'" Dr. Jingles first made his mark in science in 1993, when he earned a Nobel Prize for conclusively proving the deliciousness of bananas.

Pure hilarity.

2003-05-01T05:47:00.000+10:00

Once again, I've left my work untouched until the last minute. I have a few hours to finish this assignment. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to do it, but I don't think it will be very good. Nevertheless...

2003-04-29T23:28:00.000+10:00

I've ordered some Calea Zacatechichi, aka the dream herb.
There are also reports of the dried leaves being smoked as cigarettes to induce "visions and clairvoyant, dream-like states in which they often perceived voices of the gods and spirits who reveal the cause of diseases, decipher the future or maybe help find lost objects. Scientifically demonstrated to increase the frequency of lucid dreams."

So hopefully, if this stuff works, I'll buy a plant and have an endless supply of leaves. I'm not expecting or looking for some sort of alternative to LSD, but just something to possibly help me achieve my goal of having a lucid dream.

Have a read of the Journal of Ethnopharmacology's "Psychopharmacologic Analysis of an Alleged Oneirogenic Plant" here. I found it quite interesting, but maybe that's because I'm actually interested in the plant's properties. I don't like the fact that they tested this stuff on cats, they should've used an evil dog (or any evil animal, deserving of punishment) that had bitten someone instead. "Large doses elicit salivation, ataxia, retching and occasional vomiting." I can't imagine a cat vomiting, that would be unbearable to watch.

2003-04-28T21:07:00.000+10:00

I've done absolutely no work in the past two weeks, now I have an assignment due on Thursday which I am yet to start, and a test on Saturday (that's right, Saturday) that I have not studied for.

2003-04-26T17:44:00.000+10:00

So i calculated that my dream computer system will cost 2200 bucks. I don't know if I can justify spending that amount of money on a computer, and then I'd want broadband internet to go with it, and thats gonna be like 840 bucks a year pluse setup fees plus modem and that ends up being a whole crapload of cash. And I want an electric guitar too...

2003-04-25T23:04:00.000+10:00

19!

Lest we forget.

2003-04-08T01:53:00.000+10:00

I had the craziest dream yesterday night. There was this guy being beaten up by a gang of youths. I think this came from the court transcripts i was reading, in particular, this one about a gang retaliation that ended up with a murder. Anyway, so this guy was being beaten by broom handles. Not just one person hitting him, but like a whole gang of kids was taken their turn smacking him with the sticks. There was also stomping, kicking, punching, and he was lying on the ground all bandaged up, and bleeding. Why did he have bandages? I dunno, it was a dream. Man. The weirdest thing was one of the "assaults". The gang had somehow procured some of the victim's presents, birthday presents to be precise. So they got the toys, and put them under his head and made him crush his own presents, with his head. And this was apparently the worst punishment of all, since the guy seemed to hate it most. Very strange.

2003-04-07T02:08:00.000+10:00

I can't be bothered writing anything lately. I woke up at noon today, went back to bed at two, and slept till five or six. And I still feel tired and stuff.

2003-03-31T01:35:00.000+10:00

All my fish died :(

2003-03-26T00:58:00.000+10:00

So it's nearly the end of march. That's four months this year in which I have not been sick. Hurray for me!

2003-03-24T17:05:00.000+10:00

Click here and download the song Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes. Rename it to .mp3 to listen to it. Since this song transcends genres, I can't really classify as any specific type of music, but it falls under the broad spectrum of electronic music. Others might call it progressive house. It is produced by the geniuses known as Gabriel and Dresden who were responsible for the excellent remix of WOW's Mindcircus.

Travelling somewhere, could be anywhere...

2003-03-20T17:23:00.000+10:00

Haha, I get lots of search engine traffic now that the phrase "huge testicles" is on this site.

2003-03-19T09:27:00.000+10:00

I saw Maelström on TV yesterday, it was quite entertaining. What I liked most was the fish-narrator.

2003-03-15T20:58:00.000+10:00

I was just watching a documentary called Human Instinct. In it, it said that human males' testicles are larger than those of a gorilla, but smaller than those of a chimpanzee. The reason, the show explained, was that the gorilla had a harem of females that are his own, so he doesn't need a lot of sperm at the ready. On the other hand, female chimpanzees aren't faithful at all, so the male chimps have to ejaculate as much as possible, into as many females as possible, to give their sperm the best chance of creating a baby. That's why they have huge testicles. Cuts to a shot of huge chimp testicles. It then goes on to say that in the case of humans, females aren't very promiscuous, but they aren't entirely faithful either, which is why human males have testicles that are somewhere between the size of a gorillas, and a chimpanzees.

Then there was the story about a guy who, while his girlfriend was sleeping, read her text messages on her mobile phone. To his surprise, they were sexually provocative and sent by their next door neighbour who was away on holiday. So, with his anger aroused, this guy gets out his chainsaw, and cuts through his neighbour's garage door and demolishes the neighbour's limited edition Jaguar. I wonder what this macho alpha male would do if some guy hit on his girlfriend right under his nose.

2003-03-11T14:13:00.000+10:00

Just then in a lecture, the guy sitting next to me was writing sideways. Instead of having your workbook in a vertical position, he was writing in it horizontally.

2003-03-07T17:06:00.000+10:00

An uneventful week at uni. I need money.

2003-03-02T13:00:00.000+10:00

Argh, uni tomorrow.

2003-02-26T23:15:00.000+10:00

My hands are wet, and I have wetted my key. This key is going into my wallet, later I will open it and wonder, "Why is my key wet?" And I will have forgotten. But since I am writing this down, I will not forget! This memory shall live, and not fade away into non existance like other memories.

How do we know that we forget some things, maybe those things never existed or happened in the first place. Don't mind me. It's all green. Haha.

2003-02-26T19:57:00.000+10:00

Back to school on Monday.

2003-02-22T19:32:00.000+10:00

Check out Molly Pitcher, a great singer/songwriter duo. Be sure to download No One Loves a Folk Song. I love their voices, so very very nice. Bits of some reviews:

"[Molly Pitcher's] songs are melodically sophisticated yet straightforward and call to mind most of the great female artists of the folk revolution" Clay Steakley, Performing Songwriter

"A music so true and unaffected that it reincarnates melody as high art. There is simply no saccharine here; nothing sentimental and yet, bitterness and cynicism are also strangely and welcomingly absent." Akiva Daube, The Washington Square News

2003-02-20T23:32:00.000+10:00

NBC Scrubs - Episode Guide

I thought their rendition of West Side Story was good.

2003-02-20T23:23:00.000+10:00

There was this ad on tv for a current affairs news show. There was black and white footage of grainy video of a woman tossing and turning in bed, while across the screen in big white letters were the words "NO SLEEP FOR 20 YEARS".

Just beneath that in the same big font, was a coundtown of the years, from 2003 down to 1983. Flash to a screen of an asian doctor, in his spiffy suit, saying "Zero sleep", then to a glass wearing researcher studying a video.

Doctor: "One of the worst chronic cases I've seen".
DEEP VOICEOVER: NOT ONE MINUTE.
Doctor: "Pamela's case is really the extreme".
DEEP VOICEOVER: NOT ONE WINK.
Pamela: "I'm frightened of dying".

All accompanied by a scary organ background song.

2003-02-18T16:56:00.000+10:00

<--- Bridge Cam

2003-02-17T12:37:00.000+10:00

These songs are sung by tripod, a great australian band who make real funny acoustic songs. Download these mp3s, which were originally performed live on triple j's breakfast radio show.

These are my faves:

Tripod - Boffin' Boffins
Tripod - Three Tenors/Miss Piggy
Tripod - Army Recruitment Song
Tripod - Urine Town - this one's great!
Tripod - Banana Rap - haha this one made me laugh so much
Tripod - Donate your body parts - hahaha, this guy does a great shaggy impersonation

There's plenty more great stuff here http://triplej.abc.net.au/breakfast/grabbag/default.htm

2003-02-15T04:44:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Your mobile company loves U most of all

Technology is also changing the language of love. On a mobile phone screen, Shakespeare's "shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" comes down to "HEY QT, IM THINKIN OF U" and "U R the 1 4 me", all at 25 cents a time.

Does anyone actually send messages like that?

2003-02-13T22:23:00.000+10:00

Lollies I used to buy from the corner shop #1

For some reason, all the packs seemed to have been sitting in the store for years, and the chocolate was always hard, but I ate them anyway. I've never had a fresh pack of Fads. And the paper that the chocolate was wrapped in was real hard to get off. According to the The Candy Cigarettes site, Fads were originally called Fags, but their name was changed, probably to distance themselves from their cancer causing cousins.

2003-02-11T11:41:00.000+10:00

A Day in the Life - The concept is simple. Each day, one new photo will be posted on the site. A photographer is assigned to shoot one photo a day for seven days. The photo can be of anything the photographer wants. The only guideline is that the photo that's posted has to have been taken within the past 24 hours.

The purpose of the site is to show a wide range of photos from a wide range of place from an eclectic mix of photographers. You don't need be a professional photographer to contribute as this is really more about snapshots from our daily lives.

2003-02-10T13:46:00.000+10:00

Photo Friday: Faucets

2003-02-10T00:00:00.000+10:00

Yesterday, as I walked to the station, I see a guy and a girl walking along. The girl is about 10-15 centimetres taller than the guy, and they just looked weird with their arms around each other. As I was behind them, I noticed the guy was copping a feel down there, in the middle of the footpath, in a busy city street. I was tempted to yell, "Get a room!", but being the type of person who avoids possbile confrontations, I didn't.

2003-02-09T04:41:00.000+10:00

Unpopular Blonde Jokes
By Jason Albus

Q: How do blonde brain cells die?
A: That's a good question. Radiation, maybe.

Q: How do you change a blonde's mind?
A: Give her a convincing argument.

Q: How does a blonde kill a fish?
A: Many ways, I suppose; a knife or a hammer would work well.

Q: How do you amuse a blonde for hours?
A: Let her watch NBC's Must-See TV. Also, CBS has some pretty good shows on Thursday.

Q: What is the blonde doing when she holds her hands tightly over her ears?
A: Shielding her ears from a loud, piercing noise, probably.

Q: Why don't blondes have elevator jobs?
A: Because there aren't very many elevator jobs around anymore these days. Pretty much anyone can figure out how to run an elevator, except for blind people.

Courtesy of modernhumorist.com

2003-02-07T21:49:00.000+10:00

2003-02-06T10:36:00.000+10:00

Infusion - Legacy (Junkie XL Remix)
Days seem shorter than they are
Finish counting all the stars
Feel the years wind down again
Another paycheck to cash in
May the lord of flesh and bone
Leave you some to call your own
As we slowly feel our way
Through another shapeless day

Up the hill to sow some seed
Nostalgia's warmth is all we need
Past dissapointments turn to steam
We're superheros in our dreams
Throw the radio up high
Watch it drown out half the sky
Synaesthesia colored blue
Aquaman knows what to do

Ah yes, the cyclic futility of life encapsulated in song. At least, that's how I see it. If I were older, these lyrics would make me want children.

2003-02-05T00:17:00.000+10:00

Two words I encounter a lot whilst reading blogs: procrastinate, and belated.

2003-02-04T22:40:00.000+10:00

I used to think that my favourite colour was green. How wrong I was. The truth is, I just liked green flavoured confectionery, both minty and limey variations of the flavouring. The other day I noticed that most of my clothes were not coloured green, but were in fact blue. In conclusion, my favourite colour for clothes (shirts) is blue, and my favourite colour for candy is green.

2003-02-02T23:39:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Surgeon in strife after botching it big time

A Harley Street cosmetic surgeon who carried out two botched penis enlargement procedures was yesterday struck off the medical register.

Dr Ravi Kant Agarwal, 54, of Stockport, Greater Manchester, was found guilty of serious professional misconduct by the General Medical Council in Manchester.

The hearing heard that following one operation, Dr Agarwal's patient was left with a penis shorter than before the procedure and disfigured.

The GMC was told that Mr A saw an advertisement in the magazine Men's Health in 1997 and was interested in the £3250 ($9500) procedure.

On May 9 that year, the 47-year-old underwent the procedure.

Mr A told the hearing that he passed out with shock after seeing his penis following the operation in Manchester. He said it was black, shorter and deformed.

"I was in severe pain," he added.

Garrie Dunk, 42, of Sheffield, told the GMC he went to have his penis enlarged in May 1997 in order to help his career as a male stripper.

After the operation he said he could not go to the toilet for two days, adding: "There was tremendous swelling for about six or seven weeks."

Chairman of the GMC's professional conduct committee, Professor Denis McDevitt, said Dr Agarwal had exploited the vulnerability of both Mr A and, in particular, Mr Dunk.

Ouch.

2003-02-02T23:34:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Vatican moves to ban all sex-change priests, nuns

2003-02-02T23:20:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Executed family may be victims of vendetta

A Chinese Australian family executed in their home yesterday might have been the innocent victims of a professional vendetta.

The 55-year-old woman, her 23-year-old daughter and 27-year-old son were found shot dead inside their Ashton Square apartment at Rockdale before dawn.

A man described as being of African descent, and believed to be an employee of the dead family's father, was charged yesterday with three counts of murder, one count of aggravated armed robbery and one of aggravated breaking and entering. He will appear in Parramatta Local Court today.

"It had to be organised. Someone switched off the power to the end three apartments before it happened," said one couple.

Forensic police, fingerprint and photogrammetry experts remained inside the residential compound yesterday afternoon, as firearms sniffer dogs scoured the garden areas of the complex.

More crazy crime, this time with three people dead.

2003-02-02T14:42:00.000+10:00

The best place to for music is on IRC. Connect to server irc.axenet.org and join #mp3z-techno-dance for all your trance needs.

2003-01-30T09:07:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Slow, tortuous death for family-man accountant forced to swallow acid

Detective Sergeant Col Taylor speaks in mortified tones of the acid-attack murder of a Sydney chartered accountant, Dominic Li.

"It was calculated, it was a slow torture for three weeks," the Asian Crime Squad officer says of the agony endured by Mr Li before he succumbed to internal burn injuries suffered when forced to swallow hydrochloric acid in an attack at his Concord home.

The attack at 7.30am on December 13, which burnt away Mr Li's oesophagus and blinded him in the left eye, was carried out by two men dressed as parcel delivery couriers. Mr Li's wife answered the door and had fetched her husband to take the package.

But when he opened the security door he was wrenched onto the path by the men who both brandished pistols. The men screamed abuse and swore at the couple as they forced Mr Li to swallow the acid which also contained another poisonous chemical.

This is so fucking evil. And the thing is, if they had come for me, I would have been like, "Yes! I got a package, where do I sign?"

2003-01-27T23:00:00.000+10:00

I was watching the superbowl on SBS, and Shania Twain was performing during the half time break. I don't know if it's just me, but I thought the way the crowd surrounding the stage were acting seemed a little contrived. How crazy can you get for Shania Twain anyway? Maybe they're all Shania fans, I don't know... And then her mechanical podium crane thingo was sorta funny.
I don't know if all NFL games are like this, but it seems like there's more entertainment than actual football. Perhaps since Superbowl is such a special occasion, then a fireworks display, or four, is warranted. Also, there's about a zillion people standing by the sidelines. It's all so different to rugby league.
One more thing, the ref looks funny when he makes his little announcements, because there's a huge delay from when he says something until you actually hear it.
In conclusion, I'd rather watch tennis.

2003-01-24T21:18:00.000+10:00

Waking Life - great "thinking" movie! I loved how they included the concept of lucid dreaming, and the whole reality testing thing. The philosophical monologues do go on for a long time, but they were interesting enough to keep my interest piqued. And the opening scene was great, two kids playing with one of those foldy paper thingo's.

You know, the folded paper thingos you make, where you stick your fingers in the holes, and you say, "Choose a number". Then your friend says, "7". So you you flap the bits 7 times, and then say, "Choose another number". Then your friend says, "3". So you flap the bits 3 times, and then you say "Choose another number, again". Then they say, "5". So you open up the flap marked "5" and read out the fortune that you had earlier written. "You smell like dog poo".

2003-01-24T03:05:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Greer now enjoys young boys

Germaine is a paedophile!

2003-01-24T02:50:00.000+10:00

Oh man, those jelly vodka cups kicked my ass, and I emptied my stomach into the toilet... YUMMY!! Don't do more of these if you don't get drunk straight away, they tend to sneak up on you and punch you in the head.

2003-01-23T20:23:00.000+10:00

Just had six slices of hot buttered toast. I like to have the butter ready on the knife before the toast pops up, so that I can spread it on while the toast is still steamy hot, and all the butter melts, and it's all runny and stuff. Now that's good eatin'!

2003-01-23T16:14:00.000+10:00

I've never broken my arm, but thinking about it makes me feel weird. The actual arm breaking would be pretty bad, since the fact that your bones are snapping apart is never really a good thing. But, having a cast would make you go crazy, well I know I'd go crazy. I'd hate to have an itch under the cast that you just can't reach, because itches are damn annoying, and you always get them where you can't scratch them.

2003-01-21T19:33:00.000+10:00

2003-01-19T17:51:00.000+10:00

Modern Humorist - Movie Trailer Cliché Theater
Modern Humorist - Positive Prank Phone Calls
Modern Humorist - Secrets of the Stolen Laptop

Just go to Modern Humorist.

2003-01-19T04:53:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Cool school - but what would the Fonz think?

Children at an English school have been banned from throwing snowballs at their classmates unless they ask their target's permission first. In a move that rewrites the rules of playground winter warfare, pupils at Fairway Middle School, Norwich, have been told they will be punished if they launch sneak attacks. - Telegraph, London

Ha.

2003-01-17T20:37:00.000+10:00

Warheads spur deception fears: Hill - smh.com.au

Latest media war-mongering catch-phrase that I've noticed - "smoking gun" and "WMD" (weapons of mass destruction).

2003-01-17T19:59:00.000+10:00

THE VICE GUIDE TO GETTING BEATEN UP

THE MAD COUNTER
You are going to think this is strange, but it works every time. You tell the guy you’re going to count to five. You don’t say why. You just do it. “ONE,” then, while apparently inhaling for “TWO,” you fucking tear out of there and run as fast as you can. No idea why this works, it just does. There’s a three-second interval where he’s thinking, “Hey, he said he was going to count to five,” and that is all you need to make your getaway.
Drawback: You will be known as a pussy if there’s even a remote possibility you could have won.

2003-01-17T13:56:00.000+10:00

sdrawkcab is backwards backwards.

2003-01-17T12:04:00.000+10:00

People who type rawr seem to exhibit reverse anthropomorphic tendencies.

2003-01-16T00:34:00.000+10:00

Amazon.co.uk: At a glance: Breakdown: The Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes

Ah yes, euphoric chillout mixes of great trance songs, the exact niche music genre I want to hear more of. I would buy this, but at 15 Brit pounds plus another 20 pounds (probably) for shipping, equals 140 AUD (approximately).

2003-01-15T15:34:00.000+10:00

Man slain by fighting cock - smh.com.au

January 15 2003
A man died after being hit in the groin by a fighting fowl in the southern Philippines, police said today.
Elmer Mariano was helping prepare the gamecock for a fight in Zamboanga on Sunday when a blade strapped to its leg accidentally slipped out of the sheath and inflicted a major wound.
Mariano died on the way to the hospital. It was not known what happened to the gamecock.
Cockfighting is a popular and legal pastime in this country. The gamecocks wear razor-sharp blades or "spurs" on their legs, which they use in battles which sometimes end in death.

AFP

Tragically hilarious.

2003-01-15T14:50:00.000+10:00

So I looked outside the front window, and there's a giant antenna lying on the ground. I don't know where it came from, or why it's there.

2003-01-15T10:25:00.000+10:00

When I was younger I used to watch a lot of television, and one of my favourite shows was The Gummi Bears. Although I can't remember what happened in many of the episodes, I do remember enjoying it a lot. I enjoyed it so much that I took it upon myself to make my own concotion of Gummi, and I would store it in a film canister. I don't remember what the ingredients were, probably just Coke and sugar.

2003-01-14T21:53:00.000+10:00

syn·es·the·sia also syn·aes·the·sia n.

A condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color.

A sensation felt in one part of the body as a result of stimulus applied to another, as in referred pain.

The description of one kind of sense impression by using words that normally describe another.

I like this word, I wanted my blog to be named this but it was already taken. Boohoo. What a difference it makes when I use correct capitalisation. Maybe this should be a permanent thing, since many people find it annoying when I don't use capitals.

Today as I was walking to the station, I heard this yelling coming from a house. A mixed race couple and their child were walking away from the house, where an old lady stood on the front porch, screaming angrily at them. As I walked by, the guy said to me, "Watch out, she's crazy". So from that little encounter, I will automatically assume that the old lady was not happy with her daughter marrying and procreating with a person that was not also from a similar ethnic background. Remember this is just pure speculation. I'm guessing the couple just wanted their son/daughter (I didn't notice what it was) to visit his/her grandparents, but instead of a warm welcome, they were given the cold shoulder. Or I could be totally wrong about everything. I'll never know.

2003-01-13T23:37:00.000+10:00

i made green jelly, and i put these jelly baby lollies in them. it's really sweet and stuff. it tastes good.

2003-01-12T18:23:00.000+10:00

do your ears hang low
do they wobble to and fro
can you tie them in a knot
can you tie them in a bow
can you toss them over your shoulder
like a regimental soldier
do your ears hang low

2003-01-11T16:11:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Iraqi oil may be taken as 'spoil of war'

This is your fucking stability my main man.

2003-01-10T17:24:00.000+10:00

i can't find my cafe del mar volume 7 cd. i want to hear aromabar - winter pageant again.

2003-01-09T12:04:00.000+10:00

i hate those flash movie things where they trick you into concentrating on something, and then a scary picture of a bloody dead monster zombie creature pops up and scares the shit out of you. it's happened to me three or four times now, so whenever i watch a flash animation, i'm always expecting some crazy shit to scare me.

2003-01-07T22:10:00.000+10:00

someone from google wanted the lyrics to lustral - broken. i listened to both my versions, lustral - broken (lustral remix) and the way out west remix and the lyrics are the same. so to the mysterious surfer, here is my interpretation of what she is singing (i love her voice):

in every heart there is regret
while they soon repair, they dont forget
??? fears
through the pain, through the years
these are the thoughts that i can't see
but my eyes cant hide, the way i feel
there are no angels at my side
i am weak, i am tired(?)

chorus
because i miss you
you know its true
i am broken
do you miss me too?
can we recapture
the life we knew
i am broken
i am missing you

i am afraid of what i see
but my world is sane(???)
when i dream
???????????
when i sleep
you are here

repeat chorus

this is my new favourite song...

2003-01-07T10:21:00.000+10:00

a couple of years ago, i registered the domain name reuterz.net from namezero.com. i had it pointed to some message board, or something, i can't remember. but the real reuters wanted my domain, and they allege that i had porn on the domain. which i did not. but here are the faxes from their lawyers. they first say its reuterz.net that has sexually explicit material on it, then they say its reuterz.com, then its back to reuterz.net again. anyway, in the end nothing happened, i just lost my free domain.

2003-01-06T15:42:00.000+10:00

2003-01-06T14:17:00.000+10:00

no hay banda! mulholland dr is the craziest weirdest movie i've seen. craaaazy. the camera sweeps and the music kept making me think some big scary ass dead monster zombie was gonna jump out and make me shit my pants.

2003-01-06T13:35:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Man hid heroin stash in shoes: police

dodgy viets at it again

2003-01-05T21:34:00.000+10:00

currently listening to:
hydra - affinity (original mix) - good dreamy trance song
sonorous - protonic (ronski speed mix) - excellent track, nice indeterminable lyrics
solar stone - solar coaster (mid way remix) radio rip - more dreamy cool vocals, i love the synths at 3:06, nice buildup
lustral - broken (way out west remix) - this song is a really nice chilled trance breaky song with soothing vocals. i'm talking polar bears and penguins cool. sorta reminds me of moby, but way better.

i really like these songs, just get all of them, if you're into trance that is...

2003-01-03T00:58:00.000+10:00

scrubs is funny. i like it.

2003-01-01T20:25:00.000+10:00

Graham Greene - The Destructors

2003-01-01T20:20:00.000+10:00

does a persons playlist, cd and dvd collection define them as a person?

probably not

2003-01-01T18:38:00.000+10:00

i went to see bowling for columbine today. i thought it was a great documentary, makes you laugh, and makes you cry (i was too much of a man to cry).

i learned a lot from it:

marilyn manson is a very smart, sensitive person.
whereas charleton heston is not.
there are a lot of crazy gun nuts in america
canada seems like a nice place to live
american high schools are a lot bigger and nicer than my high school
american high schools have closed circuit cameras

2002-12-31T23:33:00.000+10:00

now i have to get used to writing '03 instead of '02

2002-12-31T21:33:00.000+10:00

townhallsteps.com :: View topic - Getting beaten up on THS

what the fuck???? read that forum thread... scary shit. and in sydney too

2002-12-31T18:50:00.000+10:00

i borrowed who's afraid of virginia woolf and the big lebowski.

i also got these on vcd (all pirated):
new best friend
the salton sea
frailty
tadpole
wasabi
kissing jessica stein
avenging angelo
i wonder if any of these will be good...

2002-12-31T13:00:00.000+10:00

i bought mulholland dr today for 33.96. CHEAP! and i got jeans that were 30% off. CHEAP! and a polo shirt that was $35 off. BARGAIN!

2002-12-30T16:43:00.000+10:00

fuck! the dvd fucks up twice during the movie, it just freezes and you miss about a minute of footage. fuck! there's all these scratches and shit on the disc surface, damn ebay sellers...

2002-12-30T14:45:00.000+10:00

my donnie darko dvd just arrived in the mail. YES!

2002-12-30T13:34:00.000+10:00

ghost dog: way of the samurai is a very cool movie. i liked the fact that all that was watched on TV was cartoons. and some parts were pretty funny too.

i'm still watching pi.

currently downloading cube

2002-12-29T22:23:00.000+10:00

The Onion | America's Finest News Source™

I thought this was damn funny:
2-D Doritos Sales Lagging
DALLAS—In the wake of the launch of "Doritos 3-Ds," Frito-Lay is experiencing a sharp decrease in sales of its original two-dimensional Doritos. "The public has gone wild for our revolutionary three-dimensional chips, which, in addition to the usual length and width, also possess depth," Frito-Lay spokesman Isaac Toomer said. "So wild, in fact, they have lost interest in traditional monoplanar snack chips." Toomer said Frito-Lay is now developing a highly theoretical "Funyuns 4-D." "One day, people everywhere will enjoy crispy, extratemporal Funyuns that intersect with an infinite number of parallel universes," Toomer said. "It will be a whole new world of non-Euclidean snacking."

2002-12-29T19:02:00.000+10:00

this one time, i drank half a light beer. i woke up three days later at the docks with two tattoos, a prince albert, and i was handcuffed to a big black guy in a sailor suit.

2002-12-28T23:17:00.000+10:00

my winamp mp3 playlist

2002-12-28T19:46:00.000+10:00

my kazaa broke... and i was downloading ghost dog

CHUT UP!

2002-12-27T20:32:00.000+10:00

i won the auction for this poster from ebay

2002-12-26T23:30:00.000+10:00

With his newfound courage, Cecil politely asked the girl for a cigarette. She looked at him, with a puzzled look that said, "Why are you talking to me?” Quickly, her face metamorphosed into what one would think was sincerely friendly, but in fact was merely a facade in order to convince others of her true sociable nature. Reaching into her ~~beige designer~~ purse, she removed a pack of Marlboro Light's. Showing the world how much she could trust a stranger, she passed the box to Cecil, who was now entrusted with one of her possessions. Flicking back the lid, he pulled out one of the ~~white tipped~~ cigarettes and took out the lighter which was kept amongst them^. He lifted it up to his mouth and held his hand around the tip to shield the compressed butane flame from the wind. He thanked the gracious stranger as he returned the box to her. Drawing short wisps of smoke into his lungs, he stood in the doorway of the closed Chinese restaurant. The traffic lights had stopped the cars, and for just a moment everything was silent. In this small window of opportunity, he could hear the gentle crackling of the tobacco as it combusted in the soft, red, ashy glow. It gave him an idyllic whim of being out camping, sitting around a warm log fire under a cloudless and starry night, roasting marshmallows^. The 6-cylinder roar of a metallic silver Mercedes Benz as it took off quickly jerked him back into the dreary dullness of the inner city.

^ these sentences sound fucked

what do you think? leave a message on the tag-board...

2002-12-26T16:06:00.000+10:00

so i printed out all these signs that say "am i dreaming" and stuck them around my room. the idea is, that i will be so used to seeing them, i may actually see the signs in my dreams. then, in my dream, i will ask myself, "am i dreaming?". to which the answer will be, "yes". and WHAM, i'm lucid dreaming. or at least that's how i think it works...

and another thing, i should do a lot of reality testing to see if i'm dreaming or not. so when i read the am i dreaming sign, i should look away, and then look back at it. according the the lucidity institute, most of the time, when you read text whilst dreaming, the text will not be there when if you look away, then back again.

2002-12-25T20:42:00.000+10:00

my name is colin, i was named after the doctor that delivered me. his name was actually collin, with two l's. thanks for reading.

WeMadeOutInATreeAndThisOldGuySatAndWatchedUs
i like the domain name

2002-12-25T09:55:00.000+10:00

yes, i am a voyeur. in the non sexual sense of the word.

huzzah, i finished downloading pi. will watch later

2002-12-25T09:46:00.000+10:00

so you may be wondering what the hell all this stuff is... it's just interesting stuff for a story i want to write but i haven't gotten around to writing. so whenever i find something interesting, i just blog it, so please excuse the long long posts. but anyway...

i love ellipses...

and this is why i love jack handey "I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do."

2002-12-25T09:38:00.000+10:00

smh.com.au - Heartless killer shoots koala

Heartless killer shoots koala
Date: December 24 2002

Wildlife officers are calling for public help after a koala was found shot dead in the north west of Sydney.
The body of the female koala was found in the backyard of a home in Colo Heights last Friday and was retrieved by the RSPCA, the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS).
An examination showed the animal had been shot in the chest.
NPWS spokeswoman Samantha Mattila said she was sickened by the koala's killing, especially as the tiny Hawkesbury colony was struggling to survive.
"We're talking about only a handful in that region," she said.
"We actually thought that the population had died out in the Hawkesbury area and only recently we found two koalas there.
"To find one shot dead is tragic."
Under the National Parks and Wildlife Act, the killer faces up to six months in jail and/or a $3,300 fine.
"I have no idea what would compel someone to do something like that or what kind of person would want to do something like that," Ms Mattila said.
"The main thing we're concerned about is catching the perpetrators of this nasty crime."
Anyone with information should contact NPWS on (02) 4588 2400 or the RSPCA on (02) 9709 5433.

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do people care this much about human deaths?

ask yourself this...
AM I DREAMING???

2002-12-25T00:52:00.000+10:00

Thudfactor: The Polygeek Test

interesting read

2002-12-25T00:16:00.000+10:00

Jim's quiet musings . . .

on tourists... they're probably always wondering "everyone around me has a weird fucking accent" and i'm like this weirdo has a weird fucking accent. and it's all funny and stuff