I went to watch some videos last night. [I watched] the first official Regurgitator video which had videos for songs such as "Couldn't Do It" and "Track 1". [...] The tracking on it is all stuffed. A friend suggested it may be magnitised. I was pissed.

This is why DVD will be good. But this video won't be out on DVD, ever. I know it won't. But they stuffed DVD too. Regionalised zones? Stupid! You idiots!

Turns out the video wasn't stuffed, it was my old TV not tracking properly. Also, the VHS did come out on DVD (sort of, the VHS is slightly different) a couple of years ago. "Regionalised zones" are still stupid. The ACCC agrees.

5 years ago:

I have next week off. In three weeks I'll be starting a new job. In three weeks I'll be recording a couple of songs in the studio with my band. That's my life. Get on with yours.

That new job is this job. In half a month I'll have been at this job for five years. The intention of moving to this job was for stability, and because the job I was at stunk. It appears that I have stability. Tick one for me. The "recording" was to be for the Glory single but I guess it was cancelled and moved because Glory was recorded in December 2001. I may have been talking about the demo.

3 years ago today:

Usual frustrations with demos. I'd go on about it all day but I won't. You kind of want them to just be done, like magic somehow. I don't like effort. It's supposed to be fun. Effort is for the EP.

It reminds me so much of school. Where you'd do an essay and your teacher's frustratingly small amount of feedback would say it's rubbish but not really say why and you'd get pissed off and go and make a few minor changes, maybe add or take out the tiniest bit, then they'd say "that is SOOOOO much better" and you'd sit and fume and think how studid your teacher was because it's basically the same essay with two words changed.

I believe around this time I had a lot of time off due to working part time. At the same time I was recording demos which eventually (over a year later) turned into the Current Melbourne Temperature EP. I'm glad we have those demos, they captured a moment of musical time that will never come back.

2 years ago yesterday:

It seems that the Palace, beloved Melbourne music venue, is rumoured to be torn down. The area around the Palace/Palais is to be redeveloped by the Port Phillip Council to include hotels etc.

It hasn't been torn down yet nor does it seem likely to happen any time soon.

1 year ago yesterday:

[Mike Patton:] I have about three albums worth of material for this new project I’ve been working on called Peeping Tom. I just need to get it wrapped up. Also, Tomahawk will be working on a new album sometime next year.

Peeping Tom came out a couple of months ago. No word on Tomahawk yet.

Wasn't that fun?