My new phone (Nokia 3310) has "predictive text" for writing SMS. As you may or may not know each number on the phone from 2 to 9 has some letters of the alphabet on it. With these you can write messages. On an Ericsson phone if you want to type "C" you have to hit "2" three times cycling through "A" then "B" and finally to get "C". "Predictive Text" will guess what you want to say. You just hit each button once and when you've finished the world it tells you you wanted to write "CAT". If it's wrong you hit another button and it guesses again. Surprisingly easy to use if only a little annoying when the word isn't in there...

My point to all this is that on my Erisson it wasn't much more effort to write "Wasn't" compared to "Wasnt". With Predictive Text it's much easier to just write "Wasnt" and ignore all punctuation baring fullstops. Are we heading toward a utopian world where nobody bothers with pointless apostrophies in every second word? We can only hope.

And does it really matter if we're all just living in a computer simulation (via Null) and one day the power will go out and we'll all be wiped out? I remember once I said that the universe was created by some bored guy who let off a Universe bomb or something, said "wow" and went off to watch the Simpsons. I remember someone was majorly offended by that.

And drums rule. And so do Blue Men. People even.

Today I buy tickets for Tomahawk and The Tea Party. Tea Party play the Palais in St. Kilda in Feb. Yay! I love the Palais. Sitting down for a gig is such a more relaxing experience and it works so well for some bands, The Tea Party being one of them. Tomahawk play the Palace and it's likely to be meathead "we miss Faith No More" central but it should be fun anyway. A Mike Patton related gig every year for the last three years. Oh yeah...

And today I buy a Wah pedal. A Cry Baby. For all that porno wackawacka goodness. Tried one out yesterday and I've no-idea how to use it but who cares, I'll learn. I have to set up this computer/music room a bit better so I can pick up the electric and play at any time. At the moment I've been writing acoustic track after acoustic track because it's easier to pick up the acoustic and jam. I'd get an E-Bow too but they're expensive ($260+) and it's just a bloody magnet with a switch on it. But then, a wah pedal isn't much more.

Lovage's "Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By" was easily one of the best albums this year. Hear the whole thing at 75ark. (thanks Dave).

Toddled along to the cinema with half of Melbourne's rugrat population to see Monsters Inc. yesterday. The introduction movie "For The Birds" (I think) was fantastic in it's simplicity. Stick slapping goodness. Monsters Inc. itself I felt tried a little hard to be serious. The story line dragged a little in places but I still enjoyed it greatly. And no singing, except for the longest "extra stuff" end-credits sequence I've ever seen.

Technically it's the best "animated" CGI I've ever seen. Often it was so real the characters looked like people in suits on a real set, particularly in the snow scenes.

Also Lord 'O The Rings and was left happy and wanting. Nice story flow, faithful enough to the book without being anal and some scenes that left me with my jaw open. Harry Potter's troll and Lord Of The Ring's troll should have a fight. LOTR troll would rip off HP's troll's head and shit down it's neck. Brilliant. Dave has more comments.

Designing CD single covers, investigating duplication options. Time to start looking into addresses of radio stations. A few little mastering changes to be picked up on Monday (more time between tracks and a volume change in one song). Hopefully should have CDs out for the buying in Jan 2002. Walken have new photos from the recording studio up now.