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THANK FUCK IT'S FRIDAY

Well, that day we all love has rolled around again. so it's time for the weekly wrap up

• Loving - The fact that I effectively only have to work 2 days next week!!!!!


• Liking - Today Empires, Tomorrows Ashes - Propagandhi - haven't listened to this for ages, put it one my player the other day can't get enough. check out "Take me back to the motor league". I can see myself falling back into my punk roots, maybe time to shave my head and go all straight edge?


• Lolling - At the rock, Paper Scissors joke i was emailed earlier today, and have since flooded the office with. Posted below


• Loathing - The fact that Matthew Johns so called mates have left him hanging to cop all the flack over the latest NRL controversy. Man up boys and take some of the heat you deserve!

SPY vs SPY TATT - YOU MAD BASTARD

MAD magazine was what got me into comics to begin with, way back in 1988 (still have that first issue) don't read it anymore as all the artists and writers i grew up with are either 1. dead or 2. too blind to write/draw. Although I am currently waiting for my two TPB's of Groo the Wanderer (Sergio Aragones - brilliant artist/writer - also responsible for those marginals which MAD was so famous for) also have the pleasure of owning Sergio's rendition of some characters from The Sandman(will scan and post soon).
Anyway, back to the program, a friend of mine emailed me this photo today, kniowing how much i would love it (cheers Cluley) not only is it a comics related tat of SPY vs SPY from MAD (if you didn't realise this, please click the x at the top right hand of screen and never come back) but placement, it's all about the placement. Anyone could have stuck it on their shoulder, buttcheek, where ever. But to see Black Spy continually at war with White Spy from arm to arm is just magic. If this guy got in a fight, he could never lose. Bill Gaines would be proud (hope the infernal flames aren't to hot champ). So this tatt makes it into the "Diary of Someone Stupid" ridiculosly stupid but cool tattoo hall of fame and onto my desktop at work.(goodbye Sandman Master of Dreams cover).

I will also take this opertunity to say I have been listening to Who Is, This Is - Voodoo Glow Skulls in which they sample one of the best lines ever from "Revenge of the Nerds -
"It says "Get out Nerds"
"Whats a nerd?"
"We are"

Nerd 1 signing out!

FAD WATCH

Okay, it seems Twilight is the new in thing. I haven't read the books, seen the movies, eaten the cereal etc etc. Vampires with out blood and turning to dust in the sunlight isn't really my thing. So i have noticed lately in this little place that is Armidale that every female child is wearing T-Shirts that say "I got kissed by a vampire and I liked it". What annoys me about this shirt...Well i'm not really sure, i guess i could ride the parent bandwagon and say "How can they let their children wear a shirt like that"...but i won't
i could ride the vampire movie train, and say been bitten by a vampire isn't pretty and thus you wouldn't like and thus the shirt is false....but i won't.
instead i will ride the me wagon and come out and say the shirt is just stupid. Parent take note..please replace with the patented "diary of someone stupid" - "Be the person your parents warned you about" T-shirt.. available through all good somewheres soon.

DRUNKS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

Overheard on Sunday on Beardy St across the road from Brumby’s

Smoking Drunk Old Man: That lady just gave me a one dollar coin
Smoking Drunk Old Man in Flanno:Why?
Smoking Drunk Old Man: Cause we look like bums.

PASS THE HUNGER STRIKE - THE NEW CELEBRITY PARTY GAME

Just heard this on the morning show. A few celebs have decided they are concerned about deaths in Darfur and want to do something about it. So Mia farrow decides to go on a hunger strike. anyway, her doctor tells her that not eating is bad for her health (the whole idea is to threaten your life thus raise your cause to public view) so she asks Richard Branson to take over the reins. So Mr Branson is now on nil by mouth...BUT Peter Gaberiel waits in the wings to take over when he can no longer take it. I mean what a joke.. Gandhi (king of the hunger strike will be rolling in his grave).
I can hear you all, "don't be so cynical, at least there doing something"..but guess what. Their not. You are just falling into their little consumerised trap. Nil by mouth for a couple of days, then it's off to Macca's for a few big Macs, while they talk to their accountants about how much cash their latest publicity stunt has made them.
Come on,guys, get out the fishing line and stitch up those lips ala Aussie detention centre style....then I will know you are serious.

THANK FUCK ITS FRIDAY

Well another week has passed. This time next week i will be moving into my new house. No more renting and into the world of a home owner. Upgraded to a 4gb MP# player care of the Ex-Servies raffle...thanks guys. Bar that not much else has happened. Time for the weekly wrap up.

• Loving - Been cranking Squarepusher (as a side note. check out his fav sites here) this week "The Alroy Road Tracks" (jazz infused beats) and "Big Loada" (more crazy beats and breaks ala normal Squarpusher), but it is "Journey to Redham(7am mix)" from Big Loada that has been really turning my dials. Each luch break, sitting in the sun, with a big fat bowl of steaming noodles and this track just takes me away to another place....
• Liking - A few autumn afternoon beers and BBQ? with a couple of blow ins from Port this afternoon
• Lolling - That after the big Pirate Bay verdict in Sweden, the Pirate Party is now 3rd biggest in Sweden and if membership continues at present rate, may move into 2nd place. With elections for the EU council coming up they look in a good spot to score some seats. Looks like that little faracas backfired. On a side note - do i support freedom on the net and file-sharing...yes. Would i vote for a party who's only policy was this to represent me on a Pacific council if there was such a thing....no. So only time will tell on this one. Will keep you posted
• Loathing - The fact that my "Judgement on Gotham" graphic novel has not yet arrived! Bad feedback for you my friend.

So my advice for this weekend is, forget work, forget study, put on some tunes and go to another place.

BRAINS + ZOMBIES +REPUBLICAN JOKE = THIS POST

Would love to attach some sort of deep and meaningful political insight to this post...but i just couldn't be bothered. Plus, a picture speaks a thousand words

BETTER RIP THAT THESIS UP.......

So you have probably guessed I’m a huge fan of the Sandman and have been reading heaps of it lately. People go on and on about how it challenged the comic genre and re-invented what comic had to be about, especially the whole super-hero comic notion. It questions death, life, the infinity and so many other things. I’m sure someone out there has written a thesis about what it is meant to mean, cause I’m sure that’s the sort of thing people who write thesis’ write about.
Anyway, that’s why I love moments like this….”imagine 6 years just pissing”, how profound…
Oh and dude, better start ripping that thesis up…….

The Parable of Glenn Mcgraths Haircut

So I’m sitting here trying to do the work of four people, working of a report that is 5 days old as the software I am mean to be using is more unreliable than a Microsoft product. I also have external auditors on there way to ask me stuff as well. All I can think about is going home to check the mail to see if my Sandman ‘Preludes and Nocturnes’ and my Judge Dredd/Batman ‘Judgment on Gotham’ graphic novels have turned up. Ahh, the life of a nerd. One consolation about today, they are holding interviews and I must admit, watching these hopefuls slink up the hallways, sitting in reception whispering power words to themselves, hands shaking as they fill paper cups from the water cooler, is something I quite enjoy. I wonder if I was a total mess like this when I went for this job, but somehow I don’t think I was. That inherent feeling of not really caring enough just may have won through I think
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On Saturday I went to a gallery opening, went to Impies and caught up with some people who I have not seen dor many many years. Anyway, it seems that they have turned into exactly the thing that I feared could happen to me upon taking this job working for the man.
They were sitting there, big noting themselves and their post-degree careers, fucking around with their iphones the whole time and after a few drinks I unceremoniously told them that I thought they were a bunch of pratts, and in the end they really hadn’t actually “made it” as they seemed to think and the best thing they could do was to pull their heads out of their arses, take a look around and realise there is more to the world then complaining about how “plebeian” it is to have chips served with steak.
Oh, and having a iphone doesn’t mean your rich and successful. Especially when you drove into town in a bashed up old holden station wagon. Fucking amateurs.
This slice of a little ditty known as “The Parable of Glenn McGrath’s Haircut by TISM” goes out especially to you –

The last time I saw Roger was last year at the Boxing Day test. He'd turned into such a fat, normal, yobbo cunt.
"The wife nearly didn't let me out today" he said, and he did all that chanting yobs do, like "Ooh, Aahh, Glenn McGrath".
"It got you in the end" I thought to myself, as I looked at Roger. "Life got you in the end, pal. You were such a cocky, successful winner when we were 16, but now you're just another sad fat prick sitting in the M.C.G high-fiving in self-congratulation, as if its you that had the skill and determination to play for Australia". Its the cunts with the bad haircuts that you've got to watch out for. There's never been a popular teenager yet who's done rat's with their life. Its the fucking dorks that give it a real go. Glenn McGrath got 5 for 50 that day.

DO I NEED SAY MORE?

THANK FUCK IT'S FRIDAY

Well, it’s Friday which means time for my weekly wrap up:

Loving – Eucalyptus (this version seems to have Dragonball z footage?) by The Jesus Lizard. Taken from the album Blue (not their best album, check out Down), this song has been haunting me all week and in heavy rotation in the little red car. Saw these guys in 1996 and if they ever come back will do anything to see them again.

Liking – The fact that I finally received my Rudd love, and since I will be moving into my new house in 3 weeks can put it some really good use.

Loathing – the fact that I will be putting my Rudd love to good use instead of going on a huge bender. Oh well, with great power comes great responsibility.

Lolling – At the line from Homer “I know what you did last summer, 20 years ago, in winter” from the new simpsons the other night.
The fact they call people who use Twitter, are called “Tweeters”, shouldn’t they be Twits.
People who randomly click on things, open files and push buttons, then complain that things don’t work.

Well, someone stupid once said...go get a beer, this is his diary, so stop reading and go get one!