poop
You'll have to excuse me: as far as days go, today's been pretty average.
At least it's Friday tomorrow.
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2003 | Work
Archived: November 2003
impulse buy
In a boredom/new-cd-store double-punch a couple of weeks ago I splashed out on Jet's Get Born and Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlantacism both of which I'd been threatening to buy for a while. The Jet cd actually lives up to the insanely great single Are You Gonna Be My Girl (as featured in the iPod ad we'll never get to see in Australia) with a bunch of great rock tracks and some ballads that are surprisingly good for a rock cd.
Death Cab for Cutie is growing on me. I bought it because (a) the name is cool, and (b) they were the support act for the last Something for Kate tour, which I missed. They're not quite what I was expecting, but after a few spins I'm getting into it.
On the horizon: Mot's gotten me hooked on the Dave Matthews solo cd which I'll end up buying; and I need to grab a copy of Alex Lloyd's Distant Light before the Sunset gig. And Powderfinger. Always with the Powderfinger.
Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2003 | Music | 2 Comments
saturday mumblings
Reviews for The Cat in the Hat are in. They're unsurprisingly bad, even more so than The Grinch (which was bad, but in an oddly The Mask for toddlers kinda way). The entire front page of reviews on Rotten Tomatoes contains one good review. Surely Mike Myers is due for another decent movie sometime soon.
In other news, we're house hunting again. Our landlord's selling our current place in January, so at least we've got a deadline. Last time we looked I just got depressed at how much the places were and gave up. Wish us luck.
I have a distinct inability to sleep in. Which really kills me on weekends when I end up staying awake till 4, then waking up for no good reason at 8.30. Evil, evil body clock.
Photo: Rookwood Street Jetty, Thursday night.
Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2003 | Life | 4 Comments
party games, round two
Cleaning out the office this week I found the words from that Balderdash game a few months ago.
This time around: what is a Zwicky Galaxy?
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Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 | Life | 3 Comments
as seen on tv
Sometimes I hear a classic quote on tv and save it on my phone so I can accidentally stumble across it months later. Today's gem, from an international stock market report, is pretty subtle but I clearly thought it was gold it at the time:"Investors aren't looking for any major jump in the DAX this week"
Posted on Friday, November 21, 2003 | Life | 1 Comments
my whopper junior has a question
With a name like Junior you can expect some minor psychological issues in your burger but as Mot pointed out, this is a fast food product with some serious gender issues (or at the very least, a tray-liner copywriter with some serious issues).
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Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 | Life | 43 Comments
That Thing, From Over There!
As promised, here's a taste of the soon-to-be-legendary pulp horror flick That Thing From Over There as interpreted by the rowdy gang at Matt's place on Thursday. While saving out the original mix this afternoon (as used in the Billy film) we stumbled across some wonderfully dodgy sound effects, so it got embellished to become the epic, big-budget effects mix that it is now.
Enjoy.
Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2003 | Movies | 4 Comments
landscape
I'm not a big fan of landscape photos, but here's one I took a few weeks ago on the Mt Henry spit. What's more impressive is that behind the trees is a six-lane freeway, and just framed out to the right is that big concrete bridge.
Incidentally, has anyone else noticed Perth's loose definition of "mountain," as in Mt Henry? We're really desperate for geographic features if a small bump like that's deserving of mt in front of its name...
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 | Photos | 4 Comments
think big
I think one of the strengths and weaknesses of pairing Matt and I together to work on a project is the sheer perfectionism that results. Every time we work on a film project, it somehow ends up being a spectacular production, usually above and beyond all reasonable expection.
Which explains how we've ended up spending fairly crazy amounts of time filming and editing the latest, an eight minute video set in 1950's instructional style. It's quite something.
It's worth all the late nights hacking scenes when you can drag some mates around on a Thursday night to record the dialogue to an equally 1950's-style horror flick that's used in the soundtrack. If we get excited I might steal a copy of the audio and pop it on here over the weekend.
Posted on Friday, November 14, 2003 | Movies | 3 Comments
mid-afternoon sugar-rush
It's 3.30 in the afternoon, and the only thing left in my desk at work is an 'XXL' Chupa Chup left over from a showbag. I'm only half kidding when I say this thing's almost as big as my head...
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 | Life | No Comments Yet
set list
Setlist from the Something for Kate solo acoustic instore at 78's, as written on Paul's hand. Which isn't to say that's what was played...
Photo: Paul Dempsey solo acoustic set list.
Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2003 | Music , Photos | 2 Comments
how odd
My mobile phone just crashed.
Which would be okay if it was one of those crazy Windows-powered O2s, but it's a boring old Nokia (with a mono screen!). The backlight stayed on cheerily but none of the buttons worked, even the on/off switch. Problem solved by removing the battery.
Which is easy enough, it's just not a good sign for the rest of the day.
Posted on Friday, November 7, 2003 | Life | 1 Comments
again
Part of the fun of only having net access at work is that when I'm busy (which is most of the time) I don't get a chance to post during the day, and by 6pm I'm ready to head home and don't feel like posting. I'm hoping to hook up broadband when we move to a new pad soon. So in the mean time, here's some more random thoughts:
- In the middle of filming another short film with Matt, which is the usual fun/tiring task of editing. This time I'm the evil one chanting "it's running too long! Cut it! Cut it!" though I'm still working on my Hollywood tantrums.
- Heading out to see the Matrix tonight (at a 10pm screening - huh?) which I'm really pretty nonplussed about. Especially after last time. We'll see.
- My threadless t's arrived: as predicted, happy Si.
- I'll write more about it soon, but check out Molvania, a handy travel guide to a completely fictitious country. It's from the Working Dog guys, and it's even better than I'd hoped.
Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2003 | Life | 4 Comments