140kph in the slow lane...

02 April 2008 @ 05:04 pm

It's not a good idea to laugh at them if they're holding sharp objects...

I know it's out of context - but I was only just able to not laugh as the doctor goes - "Tell me if you feel any other random pricks".

True, I was being sliced up under a local anasthetic at the time but stil...

Okay I have a dirty mind...

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23 March 2008 @ 11:16 am

Could have been better

Auckland, you suck...

I admit that my previous opinion of QOTSA was wrong. They are ******* awesome live! My only problem was that I couldn't find the mosh pit - seriously, the ******* thing was tiny - even for "little sister" and "noone knows". That almost disappointed me. But they played "the fun machine took a shit and died" and I'm pretty sure I heard "run pig run". Josh Holmes is a fucking legend!

However, the pumpkins did. Billy, if you're going to wear a freaking skirt again, you can at least play your old track to make up for it. Where were Zero, Disarm and Rocket?? It's bad enough that you made the 9 minute odd "United States" go on for about 15 (as everyone is looking around bored shitless), but I left disappointed. Admittedly I found the pathetic excuse for a mosh pit, so with no effort I made 5th row centre - but it was disappointing.

Oh well...

Playing at 100dB: Queens of the stone age - The fun machine took a shit and died

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22 March 2008 @ 05:20 pm

What's na, 200bhp and only 2.0l...

It's so damn purty. And I'm now so damn poor.

I liked having money... but only 30,000km on the clock... and 200bhp without a turbo.

Still need to sort out a $13k bank loan, since I don't trust finance companies (especially fuckers that charge me 15.20%)!!!

Oh well... pumpkins gig tonight.

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04 March 2008 @ 09:51 pm

If I didn't know what it was... I'd be going (more) insane...

Today started of well... then all turned to pigshit.

Enough about that... I swear some bastard at work has gone out and planted an Annoy-a-tron. The beeping is mildly irritating (though i have an iPod, so it's moot). The annoying thing is... some fucker has gone and done it before me. Now I told only a couple of people of this item...

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03 March 2008 @ 09:41 pm

This is 10% luck, 20% skill...

So it's about time for my (seemingly) monthly post... yawn....

Well.... for the past 3 weeks Tash and I have been living together. It's a temporary arrangement. Things are easier than I imagined. This should be worrying... We'll see. I was expecting far more problems to come up. My main peeve is that I'm being woken up at 7am! About another week and this "experiment" will be over.

It all came about as an issue of convenience... her flatmates said they were movng out with about a week's notice. This basically left her parents as the only viable option. I disagreed, given that my vcurrent situation allows me some flexibility - plus its good to cook for 2 for a change. Now that I think of it, all that I've done is prove that I'm housebroken - which is likely to lead further to my downfall. Hell, it's only been just over 3 months... gimme a few more and things should turn into pig****.

Sold 2 of the pumpkins tickets as nobody else (relative term) was keen. The fact that I got over face value for them was beside the point. The pre-sale experiment was a success.

Work is busy. It's going to be a case of 6 day weeks etc to get everything done in time. Am starting to hate work... but it could always be worse. It's kinda cutting into almost all of my gym time... at teh wrong time of the year. It'll sort itself out (hopefully)

Will need to start looking at property soon - possibly after I come back from the UK. Currently, I can only really borrow $350k max. That's enough for what I have planned. The two options are (1) LAQC with Dad... which is the preferred option, or (2) Wait a couple of months until my income rises.

Cricket has been rained out the past 2 weks. Not only does that **** me off - it also mean that the team won't be making a profit as planned. If I'm lucky, we break even.

Funnily enough, I've yet to get off my **** and apply for full CA membership. I've done the hard part - all I'm really doing is being cheap as the membership fees go up...

And finally, I need to make sure that when the Traffic Gods karmically strike down a fuckwit driver with gridlock it's not the car right in front of me. The fucker deserved it though, cut right in front of a truck of the m'way and then hauled on teh brakes - needless to say the truck locked up and just avoided a mean smash. They've really got to stop handing out drivers licences in weetbix packets!

Playing at 100dB: Fort Minor -Remember the Name

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08 February 2008 @ 08:30 pm

Heaven smiles above me What a gift there below But no one knows

I love pre-sales...

I am now in possession of 4 pumpkins GA tickets... well that's not true, but they're being couriered my way.

Whilst they're available to the public starting 9am Monday, ticketmaster members were able to get them from midday today. So I became a member of ticketmaster. Once midday came around, the option came up - but you needed a password to access the sales. This was unexpected, I didn't have the password. So I entered the name of their latest album (Zeitgeist), which happened to be the only word in block capitals on the page, and I was in.

Seriously, if the password gets cracked on the first go, it's not good security... douchebags.

So now I'm telling everyone I know (and like) how to get the presale. The offer finishes at 5pm on Sunday the 10th.

I have a feeling that they're going to be worth as much as the foos tickets... so if worse comes to worse I can always flogg two off on trademe. Don't worry Mike, I'll only charge you cost price...

Playing at 100dB: Queens of the stone age - Noone Knows

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22 January 2008 @ 09:37 pm

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Ok, in the words of the-not-so-talented Eddie Vedder Iiiiiiiooooooooo I'm stil alive...

As aluded to in my last post I'm no longer single. Still don't know how that happened - I was drunk at the time. I seem to be in so much credit I can do damn near nothing wrong - which is a worrying thing that I'm sure to screw up sooner rather than later. She's slightly older than me... but definitely no issues. Things are just going too well at the moment - so well it's scaring the **** out of both of us.

Went to the big day out for the first time in a few years. It was ~~one of~~ the weakest lin-up they've ever had - and re-inforced my hatred of bjork. She sounded like two whales mating whilst someone put their nails down a blackboard. Or as

mickwanny put it, things have come out of his arsehole sounding better than her. Worst of all, the dumb bitch came back for an encore - and I'd been one of the 10,000 people booing her for most of her (tediously long) set. Rage rocked - simple as that. Met a nice girl called Katie in the middle of the moshpit (as only I seem to do) who I ,managed to lose on the way back to supergroove (NOTHING happened, I was just going to play wingman...). Other highlights included Grinspoon (as always.... managed to survive 3 circles [re: circle of death] and still get to the 3rd or second row in from of Phil), the Bleeders (Where Chilly got thrown in his first moshpit... oh...), Shihad when they played their old stuff and the suprise package... Opshop - well, for one song where they got the lead of Blindspott to mix "S.U.I.T." with "Maybe". I didn't see enough of Supergroove - and was way too wasted to notice much apart from DLT and Che Fu singing Chains...

I also should have seen more Antiflag. I thought they would be gay - but they weren't too bad... though I was tempted to enter the mosh to "seek and destroy" the little shits wearing misfits t-shirts. Nightwatchman set was the same time as Grinspoon - so stiff shit Tom...

I'm sure I was way more active in other BDOs... maybe I'm getting old - but I think the lineup just wasn't worth it.

I compounded that by playing cricket the next day. We were short, but won against a good team (with 1 wicket and 8 overs to spare). I was part of a 90 run stand that saw it most of the way through, then decided to get cheeky and picked out a fielder. I was disappointed with 21. This was the same team we lost 7/17 against last time... so glad to win it.

Tickets are booked for UK and Europe in May - with stops in Amsterdam, Hamburg and Prague.

I've also been back to the gym since my last post - to the point where I have gained muscle and still managed to lose 3kg! At the same time - I can no longer stomach junk food, my body rejects it. This can only be a good thing...

And Mike, you were right about that Grinspoon track, (fuck you :P ).

Playing at 100dB: The Bleeders - She screamed she loved me.

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11 December 2007 @ 08:39 pm

Such a strange time to find myself coming down as the rain

Ok, first things first. I passed. Actually, I KICKED THE CRAP out of the exam. I needed 300/500 to pass - and got 364. Since the average was 335 and 86% of people passed, statistically that should mean that I was in the top 20-25%. Not bad on roughly 10 hours study (compared to 100+ for many others).

Sure, there wasn't much doubt - until the paranoia kicked in 30 minutes before the results came out. I now have to wait until February/March to get the bit of paper - as I haven't completed the work experience component. Bugger.

Incidentally, of the 2 of us from work doing the exam I got the lowest mark. I'm going to be hearing smack about that for weeks.

Went on a drinking ~~(bender? binge?)~~ night after the results came out. Ended up in a "complicated situation" with an ex. Nothing happened... but the sheer potential of what could have was worrying - and also backed up previous assumptions about the situation. The less said about that the better.

Also caught up with an old workmate. I also received a text congratulating me from someone who left work (and a shitload of problems behind. My response was "Who is this. I failed. Thanks for rubbing it in dickhead." Admittedly I discussed this answer with half the office - and everyone else found it funny (except for the recipient). Life's a bitch ain't it?

It's debatable whether or not I am single - I'm in the position where I don't know. Assuming that I am - I'm making a late run at a "boyfriend of the year" award. You see, I have a second job involving financial accounts & controls at a certain cosmetics wholesaler/distributor. Mention that I have a missus to the owner, and after being quizzed on skin types/clothing (blah fricking blah, I'm a guy and not meant to know these things) by the owner I'm given a $100+ pack of make-up by the owner.

There are times when I wonder how I manage to bullshit my way into these situations. My answer is still "Shut up and use it to your advantage" - what else is there to do?

Oh well, I'd better rack these "brownie points" up now, as I'll slide into negatives before too long (this is me after all). I'm already in the mad positives for prior acts - this will just blow her mind!

Honestly... that's the reason why I have make-up in the car (unopened). I'm not turning emo! (they're neutral colours anyway - not black).

I'll go back to the gym eventually. Should be tomorrow. Hopefully - but I've been saying that for a while now.

Playing at 100dB: Finger Eleven - thousand mile wish

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21 November 2007 @ 09:44 pm

We don't need your hypocrisy Execute real democracy. Post-industrial society The unthinking majority

Um yeah… long time no update…

Little to tell. Exam came and went. Took 2 weeks off to study, spent most of it at the gym or sleeping… good times.

Exam was complete bollocks. The two compulsory questions were along the lines of "none of this was anything you studies… please bull**** an answer". I expect to pass with ease. I finished within the 6 hours... just. Results come out Dec 8^th. Then hopefully I can legally put 2 stupid letters after my name. After 7 years this had better be worth it!

Cricket season is around again. The team’s struggling already – our middle order makes the Black Craps look good. We lost 7/17 last week, losing a game we should have easily won. Luckily I’m a top order batsman (who scored 1/3 of the team’s runs before being given for a BS LBW – so it wasn’t my fault).

I’ve been averaging 10+ overs a game, unfortunately not scoring enough runs… yet. Am now used to the new (heavier) bat, so that should change. Though I just had a nets session and caught a ball flush on the toes. It’s probably a bad sign that I can see the bruising in the toes already – thankfully it was from the spinner or my foot would need to be in a cast.

The team also gave me the job of "Joey". Basically I’m the sucker who gets the cash, buys the beer, gets the gear and pays the subs. The trouble is, these guys like to drink (at least 5 dozen Heineken a game). I've yet to get the unit price below $1.50 a bottle.

Work is bearable. The manager and I have an "understanding". This occurred after someone else left. He was giving both of us crap. In the other guy’s case it was because he was an unproductive **** whose left a few "presents" for us to clean up sicne he left. In my case it was so it didn’t look as though he was picking on the other guy. Before the **** left he tried to make it look as though the manager was saying stuff about me instead of him – saw that one coming. Why do people do that?

Planning on going to the UK in May (for a month, you ain’t rid of me yet). Haven’t been back in a while (15 years…), should catch up with a few people, and get on the piss with my cousins. I’m also trying to get tickets to Anfield (Man City game) before Liverpool move into the new stadium. It’s a hard ask, but I have my ways. I’m also looking at going to the Tottenham away game – but I may have to sit with the home fans. To avoid getting hospitalised, I won’t wear the Liverpool top & I’ll play the "ignorant kiwi" card.

I also plan on going to Europe. I need some suggestions on destinations. So-far all I have is:

Amsterdam

…

yeah, that’s all I got. Maybe Spain? Have to go to Germany as well. France? Italy?

I still have the urge to buy a turbo car – especially after testing a workmate’s WRX to see if there were clutch problems (no, but in his case there were driver problems). The trouble is I don’t want to waste $20,000 on a car. I s’pose I should look at property investment – but the market is over-inflated.

After the disappointment of today’s over-hyped BDO announcement, I really hope that there’s someone decent in the 3^rd announcement. Enter Shikari are screaming emo shyte – though Supergroove & the Bleeders are a plus (and Tom Morello). Still – I’d pay that much just to see Rage…

Playing at 100dB: Serj Tankian - Unthinking Majority

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10 September 2007 @ 09:02 pm

Nothing that you gave You took away from me

There's always some idiot that doesn't know when to give up.... unfortunately I made the mistake of picking up the phone on Friday...

I've been pretty busy lately, work + study + work + work means I'm getting used to being in the building at some odd hours. Just for sh**s sake, I started just after 6 on Friday. After the first couple of people (who came in after me) mentioned how early I was (only 3 1/2 hours earlier than normal...), I started getting cheeky and replying that they were just late...

At one point during the day a client I was dealing with asked my age because I sounded so young... I'm used to being told how young I look... being told that I sound young just compounds the problem...

Anyway, I left work just after 5 (life's unfair... get over it) since I had tickets to the Warriors match (10 rows back on the 20m line - its not what you know, but whose ass you kiss... or something to that effect).

When I get home the phone rings... this particular dumbass caught me tired, irritable and then had the effect of poking a grizzly bear with a sharp stick... he got off lucky...

Me: Hello?

Idiot: Hi, can I please speak to an adult?

Me: <in an indignant tone> Excuse ME?

Idiot: I asked if I could speak to an adult?

Me: …and I was hoping that from my tone you could tell you got that one wrong…

Idiot: Sorry, you sound really young (just keep digging buddy – China’s that-a-way)

Me: Uh huh…

*At this point, the intelligent person would realise that after insulting the person, they’re less likely to buy your crap/care about whatever you have to say. What’s worse is that if you’re doing it to me… I’m going to be a prick about it… because I can…

I was dealing with an idiot, so instead of doing the smart thing, they kept on trucking.

Idiot: I’m from the Young New Zealanders Group (at which point I switch off because he sounds like a Mini-National Party supporter… a species of noxious pest) blah blah youth suicide rates blah Do you know why NZ has such a high rate of youth suicide?

Me: An infestation of Emos?

Idiot: I’m sorry?

Me: …Not as sorry as I am…

Idiot: Do you even want to hear what I have to say?

Me: Couldn’t give a flying f*** <slams phone back in receiver>

Sure, I could have stopped the torture earlier… I also could have been much nastier…

There was a great atmosphere at a packed Mt Smart Stadium for the Warriors match… my only issues were with the officials and the final scoreline. At least I went to a match this season…

Playing at 100dB: Blindspott - Pray for Me

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