Thinking of heading to the Melbourne Show on Sunday or Tuesday but the $20 entry fee + train fair + ride fair + food + showbags makes it a tad expensive to see some pigs and cows. We could drive to some farm somewhere and do it for free.
Did you remember to talk like a pirate? Thank god it wasn't blog like a pirate day. ARRR!
Arrr! - This one is often confused with arrrgh, which is of course the sound you make when you sit on a belaying pin. "Arrr!" can mean, variously, "yes," "I agree," "I'm happy," "I'm enjoying this beer," "My team is going to win it all," "I saw that television show, it sucked!" and "That was a clever remark you or I just made." And those are just a few of the myriad possibilities of Arrr!
In the studio, no one can hear you scream.
Reading Stephen King's "The Long Walk" (one of his Richard Bachman books). It's one of his stories that has stuck in my mind forever. Walk or die. I'm sickened even at myself that I've been thinking of getting a speedo and seeing how far I can walk at 4mph without stopping. This story has even more grunt now that we've had Series 7 and Survivor. It's what I used to like about Stephen King. His crazy ideas. Not so much his writing... The Long Walk would work great as a TV show now with one obvious change (it ain't the "walk" part).
Actually... I'm reminded that the original Running Man (also Bachman) had a different ending to the Arnie S. movie. One involving a plane and a tall building.
JB HiFi is set to float on the Australian Stock Exchange. [The Age]
Its strategy is to push customers through the cashier as fast as possible and generate high cash flow. Its sales per square metre average about $25,000 a year and it turns over its stock more than five times a year - both measures indicating high productivity.
The reason he was not about to buy these earphones had nothing to do with the price. The problem was the colour. According to our friend, there is a secret society of iPod users who acknowledge each other's existence solely by the fact that they wear white earphones with white cords. The ones in the store were black.
The article has a few suggestions for good quality ($99+) headphones. I'll be after a new set soon when I buy a new portable CD/MP3/Whatever player. My current one is stuffed (at least where CDr playing is concerned).
Made an appointment for the dentist. Will be the first time in 4 years. I'm suspecting at least two holes.
Adding to recent concern about the dangers of soaring house prices and debt, a report on the world economy from the International Monetary Fund has identified Australia's housing boom as a "considerable" short-term risk to the economy.
Suing harddisk makers for misuse of "gigabyte" to mean "1000 megabytes" [via Slashdot]. They should do the same to broadband providers.
Powerplant runs on macadamia nut shells! [SMH via Slashdot]
I always knew some surfer would be riding that final wave [The Age, Hurricane Isabel]. *whistles some Bjork*
White Stripes new album... why didn't they pay for longer than half an hour of studio time and try doing the album in more than one take? Someone may try to tell me that it actually took three years to record the songs in that special "we played this with our hands numbed with ice" sound, but they'll be wrong.
I have a theory they've written a million songs like this, all done in one studio session over a day or so in 1995 say, and they'll just leak them out to the public over the next eternity, laughing the whole way.
Speaking of badly played guitars, looking like the next Walken gig (Cue Bar on Brunswick street, October) will be acoustic, if only because we're expecting a small venue with crap sound.
It's rumoured that the California band Walken are breaking up. That's a weight off our sholders but I'll be sad to see them go. I was looking forward to a Walken/Walken double bill one day. I'd check those details on their website but it's blocked at work. Lame.
Recording yesterday went OK. A couple of songs are sounding better, a few others don't sound much better but I have more to work with now, and a couple are still sounding rubbish. When in doubt, add acoustic.
If Heath would clear out his harddisk we could have some almost finished demos soon. But I suspect it'll be a while yet. I'm starting to get a bit low on space.
I thought it was Monday today. This part-time thing messes with your head.