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_generica @ 2007-01-23T17:54:00

2007-01-23T06:55:14Z

HAHA CHANGE OF PLANS, COACHELLA

advice please!

2007-01-21T09:40:38Z

well, just like last year, with the 'conference in oklahoma, while i'm there, go to new york' thing... this year the conference is in lake tahoe (famous for killing sonny bono), and this time the plan is a bit different

18th may: lake tahoe -> seattle .. bus from seattle to vancouver
spend 2 days partying with twee, fresh off the peaceboat
then somehow get down to LA, staying for periods in seattle, olympia, portland, san francisco

HOW LONG DO I NEED ?

it isn't that big a deal, cause i'll probably greyhound it between the first 3 cities, so i won't need to book fares in advance (will i?), but i'll need to fly from portland to SF, and then from SF to LA. But i'm sure i can do that at the time, and not get reamed, right ?

what to do, where, and for how long ?
ideas plz!!!!

miff miff miff miff miff

2006-07-12T00:22:52Z

It's that time of year again!
filmzzzz

I've done my initial run-through of the program, picking out stuff to lock in
and then last night, got the "Dan+Bec - Here's what you missed" rundown

Combined them to form 18 days of fun!

So if anyone who is miff-inclined reads this, and notices something I've missed, which will be fantastic, please let me know.

See you guys in the queues!

_generica @ 2006-06-27T10:56:00

2006-06-27T00:58:14Z

so i went to fed square last night (with god knows how many thousands of others) to stand around for 3 hours, being pushed and shoved (big day out style), and then finally watch some soccer

i sorta think it'd be fun if we lived in a country that would all riot and loot after a match like that, but really all that happened is that some people started a "BULLLLLLLLSHIT.... BULLLLLLLLSHIT...." chant, and then we all went home

oh well

things done

2006-05-07T22:29:27Z

* upon arriving in manhattan, gotten lost in the maze that is penn station
* been approached by crazy guy on street offering me gum
* walked across brooklyn bridge
* accidentally ordered a coffee regular (omg too sweet)
* seen amazing architecture, taken predictable photos
* lined up with 10,000 other people to get in free at MoMA, friday arvo, and thus seen artwork i had no idea was even there .. yikes!
* gotten blisters
* sat in central park and watched people sail boats
* tried to find mr drummond's building from diff'rent strokes
* taken staten island ferry, and been underwhelmed at the size of the statue of liberty (it seemed much bigger when dan akroyd rode her in ghostbusters 2)
* gone to a party in brooklyn and broke a bottle during the birthday speech ... th oh
* visited ground zero
* eaten: giant pretzel, massive slice of pizza, pad thai from street festival
* not gotten lost since first night ... so easy to get around!

still to do:
* take a taxi ... anywhere
* noise rock show tonight
* try to see musical of 'dirty rotten scoundrels'
* thurston, thurston, thurston
* mogwai
* more wandering, blisters be damned

syd syd sydney

2006-03-05T07:47:58Z

... in photo form
(warning, image heavy)

oh, so yea
i went to sydney on the weekend
didn't really tell anyone till way late .. whoops
here's what i did!

* went to see the gossip do an instore at redeye

* went drinking with chats at a hotel where the jugs have inbuilt ice, to cool the beer
* went across the road to see the gossip / my disco / pretty girls make graves

* staggered home to rebecca's house, drunk
* found her house, and as decided, called up to her balcony "GERMAINE!!!" ... no response, so i threw twigs at her window ... finally got a response ... "wrong house, mate" ... then found her actual house, on the other side of the road
* went for breakfast with eliza, ellen and willis, and helped eli lug a PA system

* caught up with lee
* was dropped at central by lee, and noticed the girl in front of me in the line for tickets was rebecca's housemate, who was coming on the cruise ... then noticed another girl in line with her was petty cash, from "ladiez of da league"
* found ellie, and went on the jens lekman / pgmg / gossip / thunderbirds are now / les savy fav boat cruise
* drank too much champagne, ate too much pizza

* went to "pancakes on the rocks", lined up for ages, ate, ditched les savy fav
* went to the mandarin club and was a trashbag
* taxied home with anthea, jess and mia
* almost saw mia puke in a cafe garden the next morning
* helped rebecca and da ladiez film a zombie dance film starring yoko ono

* so yea, i had heaps of fun

well done, us

2005-12-29T22:59:58Z

i'm pretty proud of what we accomplished last night

i ran off from work at around 4, and headed down to the good ol' belgian beer cafe

no mucking around with bad beer, except for that damn stella someone bought for me by mistake. ew. leffe blondes in the afternoon sun (plus a delirium tremens, because i had to catch up). dogs and midgets running around. blind kids. shady trees. fries with mayonnaise. nice way to spend the afternoon.

it hit about 9, and we got sick of waiting for that little piker fuke to show up, so we had to walk to 161, for the first time in aaaaages. jumping in every hedge possible along the way. got there just in time for the last 15 minutes of cheap drinks... what the? since when do they stop at 10?

from then on the night was a bit of a blur of beer and tequila. god bless nik for buying bottles of water on his shout, that was the best thing i had drunk all night. at some point luke and sydney came down, FINALLY, so we had to molest the poor girl. i also said something mildly offensive, and sent her into the toilets to cry. whoops.

next thing you know it's closing time, so we had to run down to hj's of course.
good way to spend a new years eve eve eve

defo need a quiet one tonight

_generica @ 2005-12-19T10:03:00

2005-12-18T23:03:17Z

beware

so, despite working at an advanced computing center, my home pc has been particularly ... what is the opposite of advanced ??? crap, for a long while. I remember I was living back at the old holden st house, last time I upgraded it. Scary.

So on Sat, I finally took the plunge and bought a new one.

And Sunday, I finally got everything swapped over and happy and working. Until I noticed today, the CD drive not opening, opened the case, to find I'd unplugged it, due to lack of power from the PSU. Whoops. So this morning, traded the 'adequate' psu from the new box for my nice shiny antec psu in my old box, with power cables EVERYWHERE, and now it purrs like a kitten _and_ opens the cd tray when you press the button. luxury.

The only downside so far (aside from not quite getting this 32bit chroot for firefox plugins working) is that it turns out my video cards dvi output doesn't send out analog as well. meaning I can't tack a dvi->vga adaptor on there and do twinview. Unless I buy an lcd ... *hmmmm*

So tonight, I'll be ripping out the sblive I brought across from the old box, just incase the onboard sound wasn't up to scratch (it turns out it is .. and unless i'm imagining things, it has hardware mixing too), and putting in my old crappy matrox second video card, so I can be back to dualhead, until I either buy a new video card with dvi-i output, or an lcd.

are we happy now ?

_generica @ 2005-12-06T10:16:00

2005-12-05T23:16:13Z

la la
stealing an idea from riphertoshreds
abc top 100 favourite films
i've seen 47/100 ... and i own/have downloaded/intend to watch a few on that list, so hopefully i'll be > 50% soon

oh, meredith this weekend, excitement plus
i still have to go buy
- water
- red bull
- beer
- gin and tonic in a can
- beer

i haven't been up to much excitement
except trips to port douglas
weddings in perth
and .. that's about it

neglectful me

1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. The Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
~~10. Fight Club~~

11. The Sound of Music
12. To Kill A Mockingbird
13. 2001: A Space Odyssey
14. Casablanca
~~15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind~~
16. American Beauty
17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
18. Monty Python's Life of Brian
19. Lawrence Of Arabia
~~20. Apocalypse Now~~

21. Cinema Paradiso
22. Doctor Zhivago
23. The Matrix
24. The Castle
25. Singin' in the Rain
26. A Clockwork Orange
27. The Blues Brothers
28. Withnail and I
29. Life is Beautiful
~~30. The Godfather~~

31. Moulin Rouge
32. Some Like it Hot
33. Lost in Translation
~~34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest~~
35. Local Hero
36. The Third Man
37. Brazil
38. Serenity
~~39. Breakfast at Tiffany's~~
40. A Room with a View

41. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
42. Dead Poets Society
43. Harold and Maude
44. The Big Lebowski
45. The Wizard of Oz
46. Out Of Africa
47. Picnic at Hanging Rock
48. The Usual Suspects
49. Cabaret
~~50. Forrest Gump~~

51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
52. The Piano
53. Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl
54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
56. The City of Lost Children
57. The African Queen
58. Love Actually
59. Strictly Ballroom
60. Wings of Desire

~~61. Raiders of the Lost Ark~~
62. Babette's Feast
63. The Fifth Element
64. Spirited Away
~~65. Aliens~~
66. It's a Wonderful Life
67. Napoleon Dynamite
68. Rear Window
69. Romeo And Juliet
~~70. Dirty Dancing~~

71. Kill Bill: Vol. 1
72. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
~~73. Trainspotting~~
74. Muriel's Wedding
75. When Harry Met Sally
76. The Great Escape
~~77. Ferris Bueller's Day Off~~
78. Gallipoli
~~79. Lantana~~
80. Garden State

81. Sin City
82. Chariots of Fire
83. The English Patient
~~84. This is Spinal Tap~~
85. Chocolat
~~86. Fargo~~
87. Look Both Ways
88. Goodfellas
89. Alien
90. Grease

91. All About Eve
92. Citizen Kane
93. Stand By Me
94. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
95. Mulholland Drive
96. Back to the Future
97. High Fidelity
98. The Thin Red Line
~~99. Being John Malkovich~~
100. Dead Man

_generica @ 2005-10-16T19:41:00

2005-10-16T09:43:53Z

just to prove that i haven't deserted this place ..

hilights from this weekend's trip up to castlemaine for joanna newsom and smog:

a weekend of pure class and indulgence
apple cider
lentil burgers
expensive tins
chat invasions
and more++ (note: may not be more)

i'm too lazy to sort through all my photos

ouch!

2005-09-08T22:25:48Z

i played hackey sack yesterday, at the work bbq

1) why didn't anyone remind me i'm an uncoordinated nerd ?
2) damn it hurts today, i feel like i've wrestled 5 rounds with zombie harold holt

perhaps i should buy a hackey sack instead of a gym membership
or perhaps my pain is just due to them buying 'carlton cold' for the bbq :|

ohhh

2005-09-06T06:38:00Z

it's my birthday, you ungrateful buggers (minus hayley, and a couple of others)

so
because i'm a lazy bastard, i'm just gonna share christabel's "farewell drinks"
this saturday

FAD gallery, in Chinatown

come share a beer
or something

really, come!

(oh, and i have no idea what time, but yea, come anyway)
aren't i organised ???

you've got my number

miff miff miff miff

2005-07-14T04:50:39Z

well
i'm done

my schedule

kinda tricky .. and expensive
2 x mini passes :(

but I just can't justify the extra cash for a season pass, and i don't have time for more than this, so it'd be wasted anyway. Plus it's all electronic now, so I can't even use the season pass to get paper tickets for my sessions, and then give the rest to someone else. curse technology!

so yea, in a few hours, i'll head down and line up, and get all these tickets
so if my schedule sucks, or i've missed a great movie, TELL ME SOON!

(although i still have 1 x full ticket and 6 x before 4pm on a weekday sessions left)

_generica @ 2005-06-25T15:02:00

2005-06-25T05:07:01Z

as i do, once every time i move house, today i fixed my record player

this time it involved buying a dual rca lead from k-mart, cutting it to bits, and splicing it back together onto the mostly dead lead coming from the record player. discovered my stereo doesn't have enough oomph to recieve this, and thus also had to drag out my lil 2 track mixer/amp. so much effort.

so this afternoon, i have, and plan to continue, been playing my rather limited collection of records, which I really only hear once a year. no doubt, tomorrow, i'll pack my record player away again, and won't get it out for another year ... what a shame

high points:

- gouache
- the andrews ep - andrew coffee and andrew sousa
- light's suprising constancy
- 99
- a zillion spinanes 7 inches i bought on ebay and hadn't listened to yet

if only i had the space to leave this baby set up permanently

_generica @ 2005-06-12T11:09:00

2005-06-12T01:08:38Z

last night i went to a party dressed as russell crowe
the guy at the liquor store was so impressed, he gave me a free cap
"boags lite"
i hit the bastard with a phone ... as if rusty would drink that shit

now i have a headache

i'm living the crowe life, alright

_generica @ 2005-05-18T09:20:00

2005-05-17T23:22:15Z

uhh guys

sigur ros presale 'fan only' "best seats in the house" tickets are
available here

$75 ish each
but damn, i couldn't resist, and bought 4

Update: *** sold out ***

_generica @ 2005-05-15T16:29:00

2005-05-15T06:31:05Z

- i had downloaded all 3 robocop movies, and planned to watch them today, but i just found out all 3 are in spanish. muy malo!
- obligatory bad photos from vice
- i have 7 bottles of cheap wine to drink, get cracking!
- hi
- i'm sure i had more to say

_generica @ 2005-04-04T10:14:00

2005-04-04T00:19:17Z

is there a rule that says the pope has to be catholic? I guess so, otherwise that saying wouldn't be true anymore, and bears would start shitting everywhere.

I have a fridge now, and plates and cutlery. A week of not having those things wasn't so bad at all. So yes, I have a flat. It's small, hot, smells of gas, and has noisy doors, but it's mine. Come visit some time.

Someone yelled for 'the chorus is suffering' last night, and Peggy started playing. Sadly no-one else joined in. I think everyone was at REM anyway.

I'm going to canberra in two weeks. Hey, look at me!

how do you solve a problem like maria

2005-03-15T01:01:15Z

I'm way too lazy to post photos and stories and so forth
So I have to summarize this down to point form

the pictures are here

day 0 (thur): moving house
highlights: none, except having beers at pete's house (finally) at 11pm, after moving out

day 1 (fri): melb -> auckland
highlights: crazy auckland drivers, the lack of activity on K road, prue getting catcalls from the street, papa jacks voodoo lounge ice fights
quote: "wow, the people are all so friendly" (either pete or prue, 10 mins after landing in auckland, without having even spoken to a new zealander, only people from australia on the plane with us) ... "somebody stole my SOCKS!" (pete at 8am)

day 2 (sat): auckland
highlights: taking a taxi to a volcano, looking around for 5 minutes, then calling a taxi back to the city ... most bizarre brewery tour EVER ... drinking in a frozen bar ... back at papa jacks ... meeting some people in hj's because we were all singing 'baby got back' ... them taking us to a bar and hearing "slice of heaven" ... waking prue up to tell her that
quote: "can i have a taxi in mount eden please ... where ?? .. at the top of it"

day 3 (sun): auckland -> rotorua (via te puke)
highlights: SO MANY te puke jokes ... rotorua being a ghost town filled with cockroaches ... someone being asked to leave the pub because they wore sunglasses

day 4 (mon): rotorua
highlights: rainy day, so change of plans, and going through waitomo caves on an inner tube ... pig and whistle, pete throwing his food all over the beer garden ... crazy drunk guy giving me his watch ... charlotte
quote: "this is called a tomo, it's a large, deep hole that often sheep, dogs and tourists fall down" (guide) ... "i think rachel hunter fell down one" (pete) "*evil glare*" (guide)

day 5 (tue): rotorua -> taupo
highlights: mud, geisers, lakes, BABY LIONS!, big lions, zorbing, wet underwear, hostel mixups
quote: "you know what i did ... i accidentally called the wrong place and booked us into a hostel in rotorua, not taupo!" (prue)

day 6 (wed): taupo
highlights: skydiving, jet boating, ducks, honey, bungy jumping, drinking vb on the deck

day 7 (thu): taupo -> wellington
highlights: winding road next 56km ... storm damage next 53km ... kiwis next 13km

days 8-10: wellington
highlights: weddings, $3 spirits, getting in trouble for having too many glasses on the table, go hard, go home, sleeping in hiding places, bacon in the corner pocket, getting sick of lambton quay road, filling water bottles
quote: "hello down there, can you please bring us some TOAST!!!"

please, excuse the in-jokes

paddles had some adventures

2005-03-15T00:38:28Z

Well, hot on the tails of his european holiday, paddles just got back from a short trip to new zealand.

He flew into auckland, and went to the backpackers hostel, and unpacked a bit. Then got bored and went drinking ...

and drinking ...

and drinking ...

and hugging skulls at "Papa Jack's Voodoo Lounge"

The next day, he went on the most bizarre brewery tour ever, then started a recovery session, complete with beer and olives from a vending machine

Eventually he went up the skytower, to check the view

... and have a beer

Then he went to 'minus 5 bar', which is (duh) a bar made out of frozen ice.

he had a drink, and made friends with the ice sculpture

The next day, started with a massive bowl of latte

The next few days are a blur, but he eventually ended up in taupo, where there are lots of bees

In wellington, he found a lovely pool table, and did a poo in the pocket

Before having a final beer

The end!

_generica @ 2005-03-02T17:00:00

2005-03-02T04:01:25Z

beer is crap
today: skydive, jet boat, bunjy
our clothes still smell of rotorua
paddles is having a blast!

_generica @ 2005-02-26T17:06:00

2005-02-26T04:06:53Z

hi.newzealandisfun.pruehasvomited5timesalready!!.

omgwtfbbq

2005-02-21T22:54:27Z

urgent help required

this friday morning, i leave for nz for 10 days
the friday after, my lease ends

so basically, in the next 3 days, i have to move all my stuff out
and then find a new place to live, on arrival back
eep!

um
so if you have room for random junk, PLEASE let me know
i need to store
a bed, desk, cabinet, bookshelf, chest of drawers, 2 couches
plus some bric-a-brac
and about 20 hojillion small boxes of packed crap (not yet packed)

please, if you can help me out storing some stuff, until i get back, i'd love you forever

_generica @ 2005-02-06T14:49:00

2005-02-06T03:52:44Z

my line of the night:

Dude Talking about 'StarStruck' judges: What has that guy done recently... What's his name. Doug Mulgrave?
Me: Doug Mulgrave?? Yea, he's been hanging out with Glen Camberwell

bah, I laughed

19 days till we go to New Zealand. Any suggestions for things to do between Auckland and Wellington ??

Last night I amused myself by ordering a pot of beer and a lemonade at the same time, then making mouth shandies. There was something wrong with the Old Bar beer, and that was the only way I could drink it. Eww. I'm sure I took photos, but I'm too lazy to view them.

So, uhh, what's new ?

_generica @ 2005-01-02T13:29:00

2005-01-02T02:33:54Z

the obligatory photos

well nye was funner than i thought it'd be

pete overcame sickness to bring jim and phil over for drinks, where we listened to shit music and sat around. gin and cranberry juice is good. got dropped at colette's for some pizza, and we eventually trammed on down to the stage, picking up simone on the way.

the stage was ok, nice place, but drinks were shit and too expensive. oh well. barely remember seeing any bands, took way less photos, but they were mostly all ok, unlike last year. had fun, and was a chat. air-guitar central.

at the end of the night, i fell off the stage, and landed in broken glass. hello cut hand! thanks to ben though for taking care of it, and band-aid'ing it up for me. nice. we went and were prepared to wait ages for a taxi, so i got a cup of 2 minute noodles from the sev, filled it with boiling water, then colette and christabel jumped in a taxi, so i had to follow, and get boiling water spilled all down my leg. ow! then when we got home, colette had to dig glass out of my hand with tweezers, fun.

surprised myself by being able to drink a few beers and then almost a bottle of wine the next day at the bbq. whee.

relaxing today, need another holiday

...

now what the hell did i tell max ??? i have some vague memory that needs filling in
evelyn ???