tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79984962011-04-22T06:16:09.191+10:00the milk of random originrandom milknoreply@blogger.comBlogger881100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7998496.post-1133927919431996302005-12-07T14:57:00.000+11:002005-12-07T14:58:39.440+11:00

for the word had passed around, that random milk had officially closed, and is now happily lodged at gizo.wordpress.com

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wordpress.com has opened it's doors to everyone.so i am going to have a crack and see how it turns out.follow my journey at gizo.wordpress.com

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well, i just found this little picture i did here at work a while ago, before christmas.i called it iWish.

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well, after an intersting little chat with Mr K about 'people who try' and writers and, mostly, effort, I decided to go up to the local pub (friend to all my friends except Mr K and the lovely Crump) and have a couple of bevvies, and post a pointless post.thanks for having me over today, Mr K; it was muchos grande good.And good luck tomorrow, i am sure you will rock arse, like a pirate ship ride

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What a week it has been.The lady milk has some shocking days at work, basically the Manager and Sub-Manager pissing off to get drunk all afternoon, and leaving my Lady to deal with all the problems, and then turning off their phones so she can't call them about problems. Then they crack the shits with her on Monday for her bad attitude, and for me coming in to pick her up. It's all screwed, and,

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yeah. so, in short, i need the recipe for the amazing bean salad that Crump bought over on Grand Final Day.. i really need it... yummmo..

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thanks to crumpet for the link, i post this especially for Dr Lexicon Rowe. the incredible link

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Sad day, dear friends.it actually happened on Monday, but I have not had the resolve to speak of it yet.Our dearly beloved, cheese-loving, character filled chook, Ella the ChookZilla has passed on. She had a lovely weekend, with much treats from The Bellamy Garden, and some lovely weather. Then, on Monday morning, she got a special treat of cheese and silverbeet, and some caramelised onion, which

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so, i decided i'd try to set up WordPress on my PC, and see if I can mod it to be a simple, categorised wishlist. Meh. I haven't had the drive or grit to read the Apache Documentation, or the mySQL stuff, so I am screwed. Maybe another day.Here is an item to add to the list, when it is done.

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yeah, so the whole song thing has gotten out of hand. I've been failing to keep up with the daily song bit. but hey, i'm only human, what's your excuse?today, i was listening to the Underground Lovers' album, Rushall Station.the title track is very sweet, and makes me think of Rushall Station (oddly) in the spring time. The Merry Creek babbling away, elm trees blowing gently overhead. I am warm,

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briefly. had a bit of time in the garden today, and it is fun.the old two-way plum is laden with little plumettes, and there are peachlets everywhere. most notably, the cherry (STELLA!!) is looking like a little terrorist, ready to explode.i am quite excited, to be frank. we saw Peter Cundall today, and he was quite inspiring, as any Octogenarian wearing Hemp would be.I'm sure I'm on the ASIO

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so the song thing has gone out the window again.i've been busy. anywho, that's not why i am blogging this morning. i am just popping on a quick note to let you all know that my alledged recording on Monday night was a pile of shit, and i burned it in petrol. so there is no rock, no pop, no roll, no thing. bah.

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i am hoping to do some recording tonight.i want to re-record 'deep unkind', without the silly synths.simple guitars, and maybe i can persuade Mr K to play with his lovely orchestra for it, one day...

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well, i've had thise New Post window open for about 10 minutes, and I can't remember, for the life of me, what I was going to post. So screw it. Here's a link to a pony.Link.

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well.....do something.about.it.

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i don't fully understand it. but it is sooooooo pretty.

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hmm... september is fast passing, and the Good Lady Milk pauses to remind me (once more) that the lovely guitar she gifted me last Christmas still has strings attached.It was conditional, you see, that I take the Takamine to a public place, and perform songs of the gizo in front of people. I am fast running out of time.Expect some sort of Ruby's Lounge open mike night madness soon.I am shaking

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i just bought fundraiser chocolate from the Cat Protection Society....

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yeah! it looks like my astute observations regarding Mr Mark Latham have been noticed!Tomorrow, the world.thanks Mr Cook, you rock my socks off.

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oh dear indeed. i dont like to poke at people. but this made me quite sad.

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rememberance. i chipped a tooth the other week, which is nothing to blog about, but i followed it up with a trip to my friendly dentist on Tuesday night. The Good Doctor Bert is an amazing man. A dentist truly committed to healthy teeth, and a good bite. Spent time in PNG working with the locals, basic dental hygeine. Gave of his own time to go to Thailand to help with the aftermath of the

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wow. bought The Age today, and there on the front page, was a picture of Mark Latham, looking remarkably like the Emporer Palpatine.

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no, Eric Matthews' finest moment is 'Dream Figure', from the Cardinal Album.the guitar tone on this track is spot on. like a solid-state crackle, slightly overdriven. with thee slayer hippy's enigmatic drum-fills, a deeply meaningful bass line (probably Eric, I guess), and the wonderful, Ripe-esque 4 notes of solo/outtro.And the lyric - broody and beautiful, delivered with a gentle airiness,

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"where's the music!?", i hear you all screaming. i have been rather lax with my promise of daily songs.here's another that' spinning on the old wedding CD.Artist: Eric MatthewsAlbum: It's heavy in hereSong: FanfareOkay. I just realised i will be delving into a subset of songs here. 'first tracks from debut releases'. Keep it in mind.This is the first track from the debut release from Eric

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wow. i am really digging this whole webstats adventure. it seems that aside from the lovely crumpet and mr crumpet, i am also getting visits from the north of our wonderful brown land. so howdy to you folks from above the murray. let me just say how wonderful i think it is up there, north of the border. you know, one of my relatives (several generations back on my mother's side) went north. so it

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oooh...i just bothered to check my webstats... and lordy my, i saw a whole bunch of sweet young folks popping over from the lovely crumpet's blog. so just on the off chance yr still lurking, unperturbed by my crapulence, i'd like to take the opportunity to say 'hello!'hello.

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so, i give way to temptation...here is a snippet of the new song. (still no audio skills)the beauty of the chase, by (sresreveR eht)?the beauty of the chase/girl it's where you've beenthe mystery of yr face/i can hold withinand you can say what you like to my back/but i'm not over youand you can try, if you like, to be free/but i'm not over youyeah, it's pretty much an excerpt from gizo's Lyrica

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yep.recorded it too.on my 4-track. used the Only Mic Left in the House, put the maton straight in, and monitored on my cd walkman earbuds (my koss headphones are malting).it's pretty. and no, you can't hear it, because i still haven't found my RCA->3.5ml converty lead, so there is no PC/Audio interaction, anywhere.The only noise we get from my PC is a sort of grinding whirring sound. yum.

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so. i've pretty much failed on the whole song-blogging thing.but i am back to give it another crack.i've been listening to the compilation that myself and The Good Lady Milk made for our wedding.the artist: Elliott Smiththe album: Either/Or (probably his finest, in my opinion (with the exception of the punch&judy song, which i still don't really get))the song: say yeseverything about this song is

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yeah. i had a nasty bout of self-hate on the weekend. nasty.that's it. no clever joke. no puns. just self-loathing, and sadness.i could keep it like a secret, but as they say 'the hidden cracks that don't show, they constantly just grow'so that's it. sometimes i am filled with utter loathing for myself. it's a good thing that i am surrounded by so many beautiful people. truly.

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so last night, we (the steinbecks) were sans Jerry Rinse, so we did a bit more work on what may be our first real recording for the new album. the track is called, well, i can't even tell you. let's just say that it's got nice sounding acoustic guitar (through a valve mic and a pair of pencils), a regular bass (with phase) and some great vocals.i got my first shot at punching in+out+in+out. it

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some band, from geelong, pub rock kind of band.don't know their name, early nineties.one of their songs, don't know it's name.has the line dont f**k with me, i've had a c**t of a day!that's where the last few days of songs have gone

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yeah.i was visiting the incredible house of Crump tonight. Mrs Milk was busy with the Ladies, so poor Lady Crump was alone, and knitting up a storm.i was left in the mess room with Paulos Paulos, and we pretended not to suck completely at music.then Lady Crump made us stop being shit and fed us the most lovely banana curry and made us coffee.we returned to the mess room, i grabbed Atredes the Red

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well, not really.i am on holiday, so i can't be sausaged with the whole songblog thing.but i was listening to 'sumday' by grandaddy today, they have some hit singles on that cd. pretty eletro-pop. wheeee

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the other night, me and the lovely K watched a quite good low budget kiwi film, called scarfies. but i am not here to talk about the film. i am a shit film critic. i thought it was okay, the plot and script had weak spots, but.. well, i'm not on about the film anywho.....the thing that struck me most about the film was the music. i am now in love with new zealand pop music. there is something

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so, i couldn't go for long without mentioning the beatles.the white album features many great tracks. including today's little number - 'everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey'.now, i am sure that you can google a whole lotta information about the beatles, and there will be some wonderfully well written and deeply insightful pieces discussing each and every nook and cranny of

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well. i am really enjoying 'feeling yourself disintegrate' by the flaming lips.not so much the recording of it (although i do have a special place for the whole of 'the soft bulletin'), as the act of playing it.you see, i have this lovely takamine, a fairly large, boomy room, and some crisp new strings from d'addario. and the song, it all starts with an e chord, and it rings beautifully around

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i remembered.to add to the already way out of control debate about my love of over-simplified song structures, i give you 'how strong is love?' by irish band 'a house' (from the album 'i am the greatest', which was recorded by Edwyn Collins, incidentally).i love this song as a sing-along, because it's dead easy.opens with the chorus ('how strong is love, how strong is love, how strong is you love

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i am blank. i was singing in the car all morning, and now i am blank.

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well, you might all think i'm a sad and lonely git living in his past youth, but today's song is another oldie.in brief, mark murphy is one of melbourne's finest pop songwriters. one of those guys who never got the credit he deserved. the guiding hand behind the under-recognised pop beauty of 'Captain Cocoa' (featuring RRR and Nova's Dave O'Neill), he went on in the early nineties, to form a

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this is very sweet... some lovely images...

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i have decided that i wont be using a generic header for my daily song posts. today, day 2, we go for a slightly higher profile band than the happies.the band is The Legendary Jim Ruiz Group, and the song is 'every other sunday', from the 'oh brother, where art thou' CD.Jim Ruiz is a fairly chirpy slightly jazzy indie-pop genius, with an honest, unaffected/effected vocal that appeals to me and my

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i just called my brother to tell him that i was surfing the net whilst speaking to him on the telephone.this new technology is really something, eh?

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okay. my will is still my own, i take Mr Crumpet's suggestion on board of my own volition.the Song For Today is 'why is there so much buzz?' by the happies.in this aural tone poem, the happies implore us to search within ourselves for a deeper understanding of ourselves. when listening to this piece of introspective pop brilliance, the listener will find 'myself looking back at myself', as if

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This is shitJeff F Kennett.... and you can guess what the 'F' stands for.i don't like to discuss politics, but i will mention that i voted against the prick every oppportunity i had, and i cheered when he got the arse.From the Hawthorn Football Club Website --He is currently Chairman of '‘beyondblue'’ , the National Depression Initiative; is a member of the Singapore Tourism Board'’s '

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to avoid any more unsightly spelling errors, i have decided to enlist the help of the blogger.com spell-checker.it failed on the word 'blog'...........

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in an effort to keep this blog alive, and to keep my fingers moving, i have decided to undertake an almost completely unfeasible task.i will choose a song a day, and blog about it.i will endeavour to choose a song that represents my headspace on each given day, although i may choose a song that will help to adjust my headspace, if i see fit.prepare to be amazed by my lack of eloquence.

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you all remember those crazy irish funsters pop will eat itselfand the sultans of ping who lost their jumpers?well... the reversers are nothing like that.sresreveR eht are a rather merry band of italian tanks that i discovered under a pile of Agatha's Panties in the front yard of Stormin' Norman.They play little games, like pictionary and charades, and enjoy Lottery.also, they have a good beat,

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so. i finally find something to blog about.we moved house, but there was no blog entry.i fulfilled my wife's lifelong dream, but no entry...we've done a few working bees, and have made real progress in our poor, abandoned garden, but not a blog entry....broadband was connected, with modem and router problems, but not with a blog entry....i've had promising job interviews, and tentative

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yeah... we almost bought a puppy. it was soooooo cute... a mini daschund/pug cross.... with whispy little beardy bits.... luckily, our reasoning came to the fore... we aren't good enough parents for a puppy... phew... it was very cute though...

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one of my biggest pet hates is when people cough up words like 'secret plan', and then leave you hanging, waiting, wondering... prick

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Somebody knows the truth

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So thanks to Lady Crump and the multi-skilled Mr K I have a copy of The Happies' funtastic free album.listening to it fills me with the desire to write catchy melodies and play guitar more.yay.Such wonderful lines like "in space you fall gently away" just make we warm all over... i want to sing pretty like them.

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wow.What a great Saturday evening. The Lions SMASHED the bombers. Johnno Brown showed everyone that he is more than just an angry young man.Then, we caught Architecture in Helsinki at the very spanky new Northcote Social Club.AIH were amazing. They have definately grown in stature, attitude, and presence. Who once looked like a bunch of nervous kids playing pretty pop songs are now a very tidy

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shit.so i call today to find out what the freak is going on with my accident claim from the 20th of February... and they tell me that they have sent out the cheque. No-one ever contacted me in the whole 2 months of this damn excercise.. which shits me. freaking RACV my arse.So, it pains me muchly to say that this morning, on the way to work, some other fruit decided to do a u-turn across three

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i just discovered that iPodder is written in python.i code in python when i am at work. i feel a real sense of kindred with this whole podcasting thing now..i am gonna get me one, except, as you can teel from this blog, i really haven't got anything worth saying....

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"Dear Mr GerschtmanThank you for your application for the above position.The standard ofapplicants for this position was extremely high, and unfortunately, you have been unsuccesfull in your application.We wish you all the best in your future job search."

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what a beautiful word. unconditional.without condition. it just is.the house we were hoping to purchase. we have been unconditionally approved to purchase it. it is ours, in three months. i believe 'woot' is the appropriate exclamation.

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i was recently accused of being a sub-par friend. The poor sausage doesn't know the half of it. I am so far under par that i have also forgotten his email address, and have not memorised his phone number. In fact, I'm so sub-par that I'd give that TigerMan guy a bit of a fright.

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today i listened to My Morning Jacket in the car. yeah.'the radio will play! the radio will play! the radio, the radio, the radio, the radio!'so anywho.i have been working on a song called '...and this is how it feels when everything i've done is wrong'it has an A minor in it, and a C.....In fact, so far I have managed to include the whole gammut. Am Bm C D Em F and G. It needs words. and drums

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So it goes like this.....I says : "bah.. i am too lazy to blog everything.. "He says : "We only ask that you blog SOMETHING. "So, here it is:We bought a house. ooh yah...

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This GoogleBattle sums it all up really.... But this is possibly even more distressing.

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This little mp3 is proof that there is no more giz.That's a lie actually, all i want is to hear more bloody vocals.

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well well well.toshiro came round to visit tonight, to the hawthorn flat we are sitting. he brought his pretty powerBook, and loadsa merry musical toys. and we made music, of a sort.it was alot of fun, a thing we had not done together for a long time, and well, i found it quite rewarding, being challenged to step outside my rut... i enjoyed myself. i think mr t. had fun also.keep yr eyes tuned

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Monday afternoon. Glenferrie Road. Stupidly slow traffic, makes me wonder why I ever drive through Kooyong in the afternoon. I'm on my way to pick up Kym from work. Traffic stops, the car ahead of me stops, I stop. The car behind me decides not to stop. Grandaddy skipps, I go bang on the headrest, bang into the Commodore ahead. Bugger. My lovely Eunice the red Pulsar is the meat in a Holden

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this is alarming, lovers of pop music beware. i happened to pop in to that jb hifi place in dandenong yesterday, and decided to check out the bargain bins, and, to my utter amazement, it was laden with one of the greatest pop albums ever recorded! That's right, The Soft Bulletin, by The Flaming Lips was sitting there with a slutty 'Buy Me, I'm Cheap!' pink sticker on it, and a price tag of only

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more template-changing fun form our old friend korangar, but now with no spunky pics at all.... wah! ah well, at least he got rid of that annoying toshiro link

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Korangar has a new colour, and a new picture. I liked the other picture, of the open powerBook better though.....

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benign (adj.) 1. of a kind disposition; kind. 2. showing or caused by gentleness or kindness: a benign smile. 3. favourable; propitious: bening planets. 4. (of weather) salubrious. 5. Pathology not malignant: a benign tumour. So, Jackson was a loner, but he was gentle and kind, not slanderous and evil. Thank just about everything, ever, for that.

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the air... it's everywhere, and right now, everything is up in it. so there. the good news is that Jackson was a loner. perhaps we should have guessed that. other than that, i have no idea. ask me next week...

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so i am waiting. for those of you who are not in the know, you shall now know. for those of you with squeamish stomachs, please click here instead. you have been warned ---- a month or two ago, i thought i had a haemarrhoid. my local GP (Dr Bernard G Shaw - freakishly enough) also thought i had a haemarrhoid. the doctor at St Vincent's Outpatients hurt me, and still thought i had a

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wow....... just wow....... we caught up with the amazing toshiro and crumpet for dinner last night, and had a wonderfully scrumptious satay veges+tofu, followed by an enormous and scrumptious dish of soy icecream.. yay... then we all had a good cry at the beauty of the iron giant "you stay... no follow...." but the wow... the amazing, was our gift.... crumpet made for us a knitted wayne coyne,

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yes. christmas. what a lovely time. i enjoyed it. i saw lots of people. i gave gifts. i gave my wife a voucher for a pair of shoes, and then i bought her a pair of shoes (different colour though) i gave my brother a huge pot full of different succulents, which he loves. we gave my neice+nephew hand-made christmas decorations, felt sewn and stuffed in the shape of the first letter of their name.

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recently, a reader hid themselves behind the (rather ineffective) guise of 'Anonymous' and threw lazy sticks at me. Between you and me, I was deeply hurt and quite distressed by it, but my official response is: 'phlarg' Make of that what you will.

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fear: i had a job interview this morning with the Chief Information Officer of Southern Health. They are looking for a new team member for the Clinical Information Services department. Lots of spreadsheets and workflow/statistical reports. I sweated like a hairy old man in a sauna. It was scary. I think I went ok, it was hard to tell. The CIO was clinical and closed, very hard to get any kind of

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film. what a wonderful, and yet mostly abused medium.... so much of 'film' is crap. rubbish, pap. hero. what a true film. a marvellous journey. a visual feast. magic. beautiful. there' s no need for 'cool' , no need for bloodshed, nor comedy.. just gorgeous cinematography.. wonderful scenes, amazing use of colour... a fantastic journey. i am no film critic, i don't even like many films.. but

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all good things must come to an end, you have to let them sink with the sun.... i worked and scrimped and saved and bought a Left-Handed 12 String Rickenbacker 330/12, and played it, and enjoyed sounding like the byrds. But now it is gone. Courtesy of the lovely folks at the Music Swap Shop in Carlton. I'll get a nice(ish) acoustic to replace it.

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on triple r this morning, during the breakfasters. i heard a live recording of the song 'golden' by my morning jacket. it was lovely. amazing performance, amazing beauty, amazing sound, and one of the better misunderstood lyrics of my time: "but nothing could ever chill, like the way they made the Dodgers disappear" sometimes i love sunny mornings....

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so, as you know, the pretty half of my life was severley knocked about with a rampant fever on sunday night, almost like a preview of john safran on monday night.... hmm.... and now i am feeling like similar sized lumps of poop. i was suffering yesterday, with bloated sinus and raking throat. but now, i am about the explode from the forehead area. my colleague was telling me a story of a man who

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that's it, we're mostly done. with thanks to a great many people, including parents (for hands and fine vehicles). we had a great day on saturday, in the sun, with toshiro+crumpet+joffa. got the backyard done, dranks a beer and coffee. crumpet blitzed on the mowing maching, toshiro use his elongation skills to clean the bathroom walls and ceiling (should have asked him to put the fan cover back

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play the john howard game but, what? there's only 26 lies?

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don't you like the way i pretend that people actually read this... also, don't you like the way mr howard has an 'environmental policy' that is to be guided by a bunch of loggers and a pro-logging state government... bah!

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i am a beefcake, honestly. i have borrowed dad's truck, which has a tray about 4 foot high, and he's put on huge wheels to make it even higher. so anyways, whilst my brother in law was avoiding our calls and not helping me at all, i hauled both armchairs from our deco club lounge out of the house and up onto that tray. then i took our 7foot bookcase, and manouvered that out the door and up also.

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yes, it is very pretty

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and so it begins.... we're on our way out of the city, and into the suburbs. it's a fairly frightening move in some aspects, but i tend to find fear in most things, so hey. the motivation behind it is mostly ca$h. get some extra saving done, so we can get to work on our dream.. the straw, the house, the garden, the life. we'lll still be around, so no panicking...... we'll be playing at the

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the corner hotel, richmond the guild league (cd launch) the steinbecks the restless a huge night of pop i'll be there, i'll be voting green, be like me

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today is thursday, so there goes that whole post....

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jeez, but doesn't my job suck. really, really hard. don't even get me started... but i love you all, my new friends... oh yes....

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