I've been tagged - five things you don't know about me

OK, I have been introduced to Blogtagging.

5 things you didn’t know about me/us…

1. We regularly engage in binge watching.

2. I’m unemployed, Suzanne’s not. So, if you have something for me to do, please contact me.

3. We can’t talk about work in the blog. Sometimes because we don’t wanna but mostly because we have signed a bit o’ paper that tells us not to. . And also because I think it bores the hell out of people!

4. Suzanne is really scared of spiders. I mean R E A L L Y scared.. (Paul's just scared of Suzanne. Except when he pretends to be a spider.)

5. Paul could watch butchers for hours, and tries to emulate them at home, much to the detriment of their dinner.

6. (because #2 is such a cop-out) Sometimes in a crowded shopping mall Paul pretends to be Kitty Pride and tries to phase through the crowds. (Further proof that he is a sad lonely boy.)

So time to tag...
Syme, Emm, Mixmaster J, Tracey (aka Shimmygirl), and somebody random...

They will do. (the review helped).

Left the South, I traveled North, I got confused - I killed a horse.

Ahhh, details. I've just realised I've been so obsessed with doughnuts and smores (that's one post you will never read) that I've forgotten to post some details of the bigger picture.

The story so far..
I left Sydney for the Gold Coast to do 'Monarch Cove'. Suzanne decided to follow a few weeks later and quit Animal logic after finishing up on 'Happy Feet', she came up about 4 weeks ago.

Currently we are living in a friends unit at Runaway Bay and all our 'stuff' is in a storage facility at Everton Hills. Suzanne managed to get a job 4 days after arriving and is back working at the studio.

At this stage the 'plan' is to move back into the Wilston unit when it becomes vacated in mid/end December. Sydney may still be a possible option in the future, but at the moment we seem to be Brisbane bound.

More soon.

Chargrilled Doughnuts 2.

Don’t use a sandwich press.. stick with the chargrill.

Alex lives.

It’s been a while between drinks but work is finishing up and I’ve now got time to watch TV and look at the internet.

Do a google search for ‘Monarch Cove’ and read the reviews, it on Lifetime TV.

The only high point at the moment is that the boss has gone to LA for a month and left me her Toyota MR2 spider. No w I can drive around the Gold Cost and live out my dodgy land developer fantasy. (Fifteen years later Lennon has been disbarred and is importing drugs in Darwin, and Alex sells overpriced art and marshland on the Gold Coast.)

Oh, and high speed internet rocks.
‘Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge’
‘I’m Alan Partridge’
‘Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip’
‘Heroes’
‘Entourage’
‘Torchwood’

More TV than I could safely watch - lets hope for some rainy days…

Some photos..

Day..
And night..

Crying While Eating

Rediscovered my Blogger password...anyway..

..look at this..

http://www.cryingwhileeating.com/


then read this..

Crying, While EatingMy sad, hungry climb to Internet stardom.

And The Logie Goes To..

'Thanks to all the little people!'

What about me....

Gosh golly I just a love Sydney soooooo much I want to stay an extra 10 weeks and soak up all the culture and vitality this city has to offer...........not!

Paul will have it tougher cos I get the hard drive recorder to myself for the next 10 weeks. Yeh!!!!

Suz

Go North Young Man!

Quit All Saints and starting a job at the Gold Coast next week.

The Missus is staying put.

Craptacular!

T'he Marine'

'Goodnight'

Suzanne worked on VFX while shooting.

I worked on VFX in Post Production.

Please dont judge us.

On the April 20 bandwagon.

(this is from Snopes.com)


Claim: '420' entered drug parlance as a term signifying the time to light up a joint.

Status: True.

Origins: Odd

terms sneak into our language every now and then, and this is one of the oddest. Everyone who considers himself in the know about the drug subculture has heard that '420' has something to do with illegal drug use, but when you press them, they never seem to know why, or even what the term supposedly signifies.

It's both more and less than people make it out to be. '420' began its sub-rosa linguistic career in 1971 as a bit of slang casually used by a group of high school kids at San Rafael High School in California. '420' (always pronounced "four-twenty," never "four hundred and twenty") came to be an accepted part of the argot within that group of about a dozen pot smokers, beginning as a reminder of the time they planned to meet to light up, 4:20 p.m. Keep in mind this wasn't a general call to all dope smokers everywhere to toke up at twenty past four every day; it was twelve kids who'd made a date to meet near a certain statue. It's thus incorrect to deem that '420' originated as a national or international dope-smoking time, even though the term began as a reference to a particular time of day.

These days '420' is used as a generic way of declaring one likes to use marijuana or just as a term for the substance itself. Its earliest connotation of having to do with the time a certain group of students congregated to smoke wacky tobaccy is unknown to the overwhelming majority of those who now employ the term. Indeed, most instead believe one or more of the many spurious explanations that have since grown up about this much abused short form:

• 420 is the penal code section for marijuana use in California.

  Nope. Section 420 of the California penal code refers to obstructing entry on public land. The penal codes of other states list different entries for 420, but none of them matches anything having to do with marijuana.

  However, on 1 January 2004 the Governor of California signed that state's Senate Bill 420 which regulates marijuana used for medical purposes. This bill comes years after the term '420' was associated with marijuana and indeed its number likely was chosen because of the existing pop culture connection. This is the tail wagging the dog, not the other way around.

• It's the Los Angeles or New York police radio code for marijuana smoking in progress.

  It's not the police radio code for anything, let alone that.

• It's the number of chemical compounds in marijuana.

  The number of chemical compounds in marijuana is 315, according to the folks at High Times magazine.

• April 20 is the date that Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, or Janis Joplin died.

  Though these performers were strongly identified with drug use during their brief lifetimes and the emerging drug culture after their demises, none of them kicked the bucket on April 20. Morrison died on July 3, Hendrix on September 18, and Joplin on October 4.

• The 20th of April is the best time to plant marijuana.

  There's no one "best time" -- that answer would change from one part of the country to another, or even one country to another.

• Albert Hofmann took the first deliberate LSD trip at 4:20 on 19 April 1943.

  This was indeed the case — his lab notes back this up. But this wasn't the source of "420," just an oddball coincidence. (For the pedants out there, Hofmann's first LSD trip, which was accidental, took place on 16 April 1943.)

• It's the code you send to your drug dealer's pager.

  Yeah, right. All drug dealers recognize a '420' page as "Please be waiting on the corner with my baggie of wildwood weed."

• When the Grateful Dead toured, they always stayed in Room 420.

  Untrue, says Grateful Dead Productions spokesman Dennis McNally.

Spurious etymologies and uncertain definition aside, '420' has slipped into a position of semi-respectability within the English lexicon. Various free-wheeling cities annually celebrate "hemp fests" on April 20. There's a 4:20 record label in California, and a band called 4:20. Atlanta's Sweetwater Brewing Co. sells its 420 Pale Ale in supermarkets and opens its doors to the public at 4:20 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays. New York's 420 Tours sells low-cost travel packages to the Netherlands and Jamaica. Highway 420 Radio broadcasts "music for the chemically enhanced." And in 2001, the forReal.org web site of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Center for Substance Abuse Prevention put out a public service document titled, "It's 4:20 — Do You Know Where Your Teen Is?"

420s are routinely slipped into popular movies and television shows. In Fast Times at Ridgemont High the score of the football game was 42-0. Most of the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20 (but not all — when the kid receives the watch it's set at 9:00). And there are many other instances, so keep your eyes peeled.

However, as amusing as it is to tie 420 to pot smoking and hunt for it in popular movies, the number has its dark side. Hitler was born on 20 April 1889, and the massacre of 13 victims at Columbine High School in Colorado took place on 20 April 1999.

Barbara "4 and 20 blackbirds" Mikkelson

Last updated: 19 April 2005

'I like your old stuff better than your new stuff'

From 'Murmurs.com"

On September 12th, EMI will release the first comprehensive CD and DVD anthologies of R.E.M.'s 1980s I.R.S. Records catalog. The CD will be called And I Feel Fine…The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 and will be available in 2 formats: a 21-track single-disc collection of hits and band/fan favorites and a 2-CD Collector's Edition with a second 21-track disc of rarities including alternate takes, demos, previously unreleased songs, mixes, and live recordings of classic R.E.M. The DVD, When the Light Is Mine The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection, includes the music videos from Chronic Town through Document, as well as live television performances and James Herbert’s short film, Left of Reckoning. DVD extras feature early interviews and rare acoustic performances.

And I Feel Fine...The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 (CD)

1. Begin the Begin
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Pretty Persuasion
4. Talk About the Passion
5. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
6. Sitting Still
7. Gardening at Night
8. 7 Chinese Bros.
9. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
10.Driver 8
11.Can't Get There From Here
12.Finest Worksong
13.Feeling Gravity's Pull
14.I Believe
15.Life and How To Live It
16.Cuyahoga
17.The One I Love
18.Welcome To the Occupation
19.Fall On Me
20.Perfect Circle
21.It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

And I Feel Fine...The Best of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987
Collectors' Edition (2-CDs)
(Contains Disc 1 + Rarities Disc)

1. Pilgrimage (Mike's pick)
2. These Days (Bill's pick)
3. Gardening at Night (slower electric demo; previously unreleased)
4. Radio Free Europe (Hib-tone version)
5. Sitting Still (Hib-tone version)
6. Life and How to Live It (Live at the Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, Holland 9/14/87; previously unreleased)
7. Ages of You (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
8. We Walk (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
9. 1,000,000 (Live at the Paradise, Boston 7/13/83; previously unreleased)
10.Finest Worksong (other mix)
11.Hyena (demo; previously unreleased)
12.Theme From Two Steps Onward (previously unreleased)
13.Superman
14.All the Right Friends (previously unreleased)
15.Mystery to Me (demo; previously unreleased)
16.Just A Touch (live in-studio version; previously unreleased)
17.Bad Day (session outtake; previously unreleased)
18.King of Birds (last song cut from the Best Of…)
19.Swan Swan H (live, acoustic from Athens,GA-Inside/Out)
20.Disturbance at the Heron House (Peter's pick)
21.Time After Time (annElise) (Michael's pick)

When The Light Is Mine
The Best Of the I.R.S. Years 1982-1987 Video Collection (DVD)
1. Wolves, Lower
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Talk About the Passion
4. Radio Free Europe (Live, The Tube, 11/18/83)
5. Talk About the Passion (Live, The Tube, 11/18/83)
6. So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)
7. James Herbert's "Left of Reckoning" (20-minute film)
8. Pretty Persuasion (Live, The Old Grey Whistle Test, 11/20/84)
9. Can't Get There From Here
10.Driver 8
11.Life and How To Live It
12.Feeling Gravity's Pull
13.Can't Get There From Here (Live, The Tube, 10/25/85)
14.Fall On Me
15.Swan Swan H (Athens, GA-Inside/Out)
16.The One I Love
17.It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
18.Finest Worksong
DVD extras include rare interview footage and acoustic performances.

MMM..I love my job.

Yes sirree, I sure do love my job.

Its all peachy.

Feeling Fine.

Not going postal.

Love my family

Love my wife.

Fear God.

Voted for the right political party.

Changed my underwear.

Recycle newspaper.

Laugh at the Family Circus.

Sunshine, Lollypops, Rainbows and everything that's wonderfull..

Brown paper packages tied up with string.

(just in case).

Space Invaders Forgot Frank

Mmmmm, Betty..

Have Space Invader, will travel.: Berets: Nature's warning signal.
Syme forgot Frank.

Bum Wipes.

I'd never buy them, but...

Suzanne was given a packet of those Sorbent 'Clean and Fresh' personal toilet wipes at the supermarket. Not just a few in a sample packet, but a whole wad with a dispenser box. They must be desperate to get the public to use them.

It’s been a slow blog week, lets all pray that something else happened before I decide to comment on their usage.

Fold or scrunch?

Do they smell like those KFC moist toweletts?


To boldly go..

My Name Is Earl

Just saw the pilot episode. The two people who read this blog must MUST watch this show!

It's funny.

So Cold....

Out unit is cold. Last night I was wearing five layers of clothing on my skinny torso.

Left Of Dial

One thing I’ve been surprised about is the quality of the CD’s in the Randwick library. From past experience local library’s collections are hopelessly outdated and/or contain Abba compilations and generic ‘Hits of the 50’s’.

I was able to pick up a 4 CD box set called ‘Left Of The Dial’ that was released by Rhino records a few years back. This partial track list reads like one of James’ Rage video compilations

Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
Going Underground - The Jam
A Forest - The Cure
Holiday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
I Will Dare - The Replacements
Hollywood (Africa) - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
Temptation - New Order
Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely - Husker Du
Cattle And Cane - The Go-Betweens
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr.
The Charming Man - The Smiths
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
Goo Goo Muck - The Cramps
Senses Working Overtime - XTC
Birthday - The Sugarcubes
We Care A Lot - Faith No More
Ana Ng - They Might Be Giants
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
She Bangs The Drums - The Stone Roses
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Uncertain Smile (Original 7 Inch Version) - The The
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
24 Hour Party People - Happy Mondays
A Pair Of Brown Eyes - The Pogues
A New England - Billy Bragg


Anyway, this wasn’t supposed to be a record review. (I've been sworn off record reviews since grade 10 when I typed up the above mentiond James’s review of ‘Under A Blood Red Sky’ and changed all the references to Martin Luther King -MLK to ‘Milk’. Hey Bob Geldof had an argument with Maggie Thatcher about Butter, why couldn’t Bonno sing about Milk?)

While we are reminiscing, ‘The Queen Is Dead’ is 20 years old this month. The current airfreight copy of the NME* has a cover story and a fair chunk if the magazine devoted to it. Box set still on the cards for September.



*available Tuesday

Football

The Pentecostal Singaporean engineers downstairs had the TV on so loud that I didn’t really need to have the sound up at all. Even so I had the headphones on with the doona and the beer. I started to stray around the 75th minute and switched channels (you know Nate died last week and I wanted to see how the family are coping, 1 more episode to go ) although I switched back just in time.

Off to the 2006 Biennale of Sydney today to see me some art.

Emo

How did the whole Emo thing pass me by? I like to think that I know whats 'going on' and that I'm hip to the kids. But, I had no idea that there was a thing , a style, called Emo. It must ne pre-middle age setting in.

Thats Emo, not Elmo. Use the wiki.

Update next week..

....holidays for a week next week.

Update soon.